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    "tag": 13252,
    "title": "Sediment Data from Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire (ARMSTRONG74 shapefile)",
    "pubdate": "2003",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "03-001",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
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    "email": null,
    "descript": "The sediment data presented in this data layer were from a geochemical study sited in Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire.  The analog data were originally converted into digital form for inclusion in a Gulf of Maine Contaminated Sediments Database.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
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            "name": "Poppe, Lawrence J.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Paskevich, Valerie F.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Williams, S. Jeffress",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hastings, Mary E.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Kelley, John T.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Belknap, D. F.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Ward, Larry G.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Fitzgerald, D. M.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Larsen, Peter F.",
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            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
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        },
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            "scope": "Geospatial data indicating the locations of instruments, vessels, aircraft, or other vehicles used to collect scientific observations.  These data include horizontal coordinates in sequence, and may include time or vertical position."
        },
        {
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        },
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