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    "tag": 18142,
    "title": "2-meter bathymetric data collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-017-FA (GeoTIFF image)",
    "pubdate": "2019",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P9HZHXXV",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P9HZHXXV\/2016-017-FA_Bathymetry2m_NAVD88_meta.faq.html",
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    "email": null,
    "descript": "Geophysical and geological survey data were collected off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in May and July 2016. Approximately 130 linear kilometers of subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, sea floor photographs, and (or) video at 26 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 19 of the 26 sampling sites and video and (or) photographic imagery of the sea floor were taken at all 26 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the sea floor by identifying sediment-texture, seabed morphology, and underlying geologic structure and stratigraphy.  Data collected during these 2016 surveys are included in this data release: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5066\/P9HZHXXV.        More information can be found on the websites for the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activities at https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/fan_info.php?fan=2016-017-FA and https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/fan_info.php?fan=2016-037-FA.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Ackerman, Seth D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Foster, David S.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Danforth, William W.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Huntley, Emily C.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "80",
            "name": "bathymetry",
            "scope": "The elevation of the earth's surface beneath a body of water, especially the ocean, typically determined by measurements of depth from the water surface."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2037",
            "name": "interferometric sonar",
            "scope": "Acoustic technique for determining depths or creating backscatter imagery in a wide swath of seafloor or lakebed centered below the instrument platform."
        },
        {
            "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": "707",
            "name": "marine geophysics",
            "scope": "Branch of earth sciences concerned with the physical processes of the oceans and continental margins.  We include here studies of large bodies of brackish and fresh water, such as lakes and rivers."
        },
        {
            "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": 2,
            "code": "1176",
            "name": "topography",
            "scope": "Configuration of the land surface and sea floor."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
        {
            "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": "010",
            "name": "imageryBaseMapsEarthCover",
            "scope": "Base maps, for example land\/earth cover, topographic maps, imagery, unclassified images, annotations, digital ortho imagery"
        },
        {
            "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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            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/5c926dc0e4b0938824573d57\/?name=2016-017-FA_Bathymetry2m_NAVD88_browse.jpg",
            "description": "Depth-colored hillshade image of bathymetry from off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, MA"
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