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    "tag": 13274,
    "title": "National Ocean Service (NOS) Cartographic Codes for Bottom Character in the Gulf of Maine region (NOSGOM shapefile)",
    "pubdate": "2003",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "03-001",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/open_file_report\/ofr2003-001\/nosgom.shp.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "These data were collected by the National Ocean Service (NOS, formerly the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) for the purpose of charting the coastal waters and navigable waterways of the United States.  Data collected prior to 1965 were digitized from the final survey plots.  All other data were digitized in the field during the surveys.  These data were supplied by the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). This data set contains fields that are only a subset of those fields available in the NOS Hydrographic Database, but included in this data set are the NOS cartographic codes for bottom characteristics.  Although included here, these codes are no longer customarily supplied by NGDC with the NOS Hydrographic Database. As such, this data layer provides important information that is no longer readily available.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Poppe, Lawrence J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Paskevich, Valerie F.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Williams, S. Jeffress",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hastings, Mary E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kelley, John T.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Belknap, D. F.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ward, Larry G.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fitzgerald, D. M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Larsen, Peter F.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "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": "2078",
            "name": "navigational data",
            "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."
        },
        {
            "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."
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        },
        {
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            "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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