{
    "tag": 9964,
    "title": "Long-term shoreline change rates for Rincon, Puerto Rico 1936-2006 (lt_transects.shp)",
    "pubdate": "2007",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2007-1017",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/open_file_report\/ofr2007-1017\/lt_transects_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "The 8 km of shoreline from Punta Hig\u00fcero to Punta Cadena in Rinc\u00f3n, Puerto Rico is experiencing long-term coastal erosion. This study documents historical shoreline changes at Rinc\u00f3n for the period 1936-2006. Thirteen historical shoreline positions were compiled from existing data, new orthophotography, and GPS field surveys. Shoreline vectors represent the high water line at the time of the survey.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Thieler, E. Robert",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rodriguez, Rafael W.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Himmelstoss, Emily A.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1799",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "353",
            "name": "erosion",
            "scope": "The process whereby materials of the earth's crust are loosened, dissolved, or worn away and simultaneously moved from one place to another."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "706",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology concerned with the composition, geologic history, and earth processes of the ocean floor and the continental margin."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2072",
            "name": "shoreline accretion",
            "scope": "Seaward migration of the shoreline resulting from the addition of earth materials."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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    "image": [],
    "fan": []
}