{
    "tag": 17167,
    "title": "Location and analysis of sediment samples collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (point shapefile and CSV file)",
    "pubdate": "2018",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F73F4NVM",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/field_activities\/2011_015_fa\/2011-015-FA_samples_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human effects. Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of the Geologic Mapping of the Massachusetts Sea Floor program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. The project is focused on the inshore waters (5\u201330 meters deep) of Massachusetts. This dataset is from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sampling survey 2011-015-FA (September 9\u201316, 2011) by the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management with partners from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency aboard the ocean survey vessel Bold. During the survey, surficial sediment samples and bottom still and video imagery were collected in Cape Cod Bay, Buzzards Bay, and Vineyard Sound; south of Martha's Vineyard; and south and east of Nantucket, Massachusetts.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Huntley, Emily C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ackerman, Seth D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Boeri, Robert L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Callaghan, Todd P.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sampson, Daniel W.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2067",
            "name": "grab sampling",
            "scope": "Use of a mechanical device to seize a volume of unconsolidated surficial material for study.  This term applies when the device used is specifically crafted for grab sampling."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "493",
            "name": "grain-size analysis",
            "scope": "Method of studying soils, sediments, sands, or rock by determining the size, distribution, and proportion of selected particles."
        },
        {
            "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": "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": "013",
            "name": "location",
            "scope": "Positional information and services, for example addresses, geodetic networks, geodetic control points, postal zones and services, place names, geographic names"
        },
        {
            "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"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "111",
            "name": "bay",
            "scope": "a recess in the shoreline, typically bounded by capes or headlands."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "123",
            "name": "continental shelf",
            "scope": "the gently sloping sea floor between the coast and the continental slope."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "719",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "used for geological and related studies of ocean basins and margins."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "519",
            "name": "sediment analysis",
            "scope": "laboratory analysis of sediment samples in support of a variety of geological and biological research topics (sedimentology, stratigraphy, benthic habitats, and others)."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "180",
            "name": "sound",
            "scope": "a relatively long ocean inlet separating an island from the mainland or connecting two larger bodies of water; wider than a strait."
        }
    ],
    "place_term": [],
    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/data\/field-activity-data\/2011-015-FA\/data\/samples\/2011-015-FA_samples_browse.jpg",
            "description": "Thumbnail image of sediment sample locations offshore of Massachusetts."
        }
    ],
    "fan": [
        "2011-015-FA"
    ]
}