{
    "tag": 16899,
    "title": "Sediment Texture Units of the Sea Floor from Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts (NAH_CCB_sedcover polygon shapefile, Geographic, WGS84)",
    "pubdate": "2013",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2012-1157",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/open_file_report\/ofr2012-1157\/Nahant_CCB_sedcovermeta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "These data are qualitatively derived interpretive polygon shapefiles and selected source raster data defining surficial geology, sediment type and distribution, and physiographic zones of the sea floor from Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay. Much of the geophysical data used to create the interpretive layers were collected under a cooperative agreement among the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of seafloor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes because of natural or human effects. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts. Data collected during the mapping cooperative involving the USGS have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (http:\/\/woodshole.er.usgs.gov\/project-pages\/coastal_mass\/html\/current_map.html). The interpretations released in this study are for an area extending from the southern tip of Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. A combination of geophysical and sample data including high resolution bathymetry and lidar, acoustic-backscatter intensity, seismic-reflection profiles, bottom photographs, and sediment samples are used to create the data interpretations. Most of the nearshore geophysical and sample data (including the bottom photographs) were collected during several cruises between 2000 and 2008. More information about the cruises and the data collected can be found at the Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts Web page: http:\/\/woodshole.er.usgs.gov\/project-pages\/coastal_mass\/.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Pendleton, Elizabeth A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Baldwin, Wayne E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Barnhardt, Walter A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ackerman, Seth D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Foster, David S.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Andrews, Brian D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Schwab, William C.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "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": "2079",
            "name": "scientific interpretation",
            "scope": "Application of scientific judgment as to the meaning of observations or models. Use for interpretations that are provided in formats similar to data, such as geospatial data."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1025",
            "name": "sea-floor characteristics",
            "scope": "Geomorphic features and geographic, compositional, and textural variation in the materials composing the ocean floor. Includes both large-scale structures (such as seamounts and rises) and fine-scale variations in rocks and deposits on the sea floor."
        },
        {
            "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": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/of\/2012\/1157\/GIS_catalog\/SedimentTexture\/sedcover_browse.png",
            "description": "Image of the sediment texture and distribution shapefile for the Massachusetts inner continental shelf from Nahant to Northern Cape Cod Bay"
        }
    ],
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