{
    "tag": 8231,
    "title": "Archive of Digital Boomer and Chirp Seismic Reflection Data Collected During USGS Cruise 03SCC03 in Lake Pelto and Timbalier and Terrebonne Bays, Louisiana, September 2003",
    "pubdate": "2006",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "238",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/spcmsc\/ds-238metadata.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "In September of 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted geophysical surveys in Lake Pelto, Timbalier Bay, Terrebonne Bay, and nearby waterbodies offshore south-central Louisiana. This report serves as an archive of unprocessed digital boomer and chirp seismic reflection data, trackline maps, navigation files, GIS information, Field Activity Collection System (FACS) logs, observer's logbook, and formal FGDC metadata. Filtered and gained digital images of the seismic profiles are also provided.  The archived trace data are in standard Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) SEG-Y format (Barry and others, 1975) and may be downloaded and processed with commercial or public domain software such as Seismic Unix (SU). Example SU processing scripts and USGS software for viewing the SEG-Y files (Zihlman, 1992) are also provided.  For more information on the seismic surveys see http:\/\/walrus.wr.usgs.gov\/infobank\/g\/g103la\/html\/g-1-03-la.meta.html  These data are also available via GeoMapApp (http:\/\/www.geomapapp.org\/) and Virtual Ocean ( http:\/\/www.virtualocean.org\/) earth science exploration and visualization applications.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Calderon, Karynna",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dadisman, Shawn V.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kindinger, Jack L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Flocks, James G.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wiese, Dana S.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Harrison, Arnell S.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "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": "1045",
            "name": "seismic reflection methods",
            "scope": "Geophysical technique to study the subsurface of the earth using sound waves induced by explosives, vibrating devices, or percussive equipment.  The reflections of the sound waves from the boundaries of different rocks are measured."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2054",
            "name": "sub-bottom profiling",
            "scope": "Methods of imaging the structure of sediments below the sea floor  or lakebed using ship-borne or towed sensors with a variety of sound sources."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 23,
            "code": "3",
            "name": "Distributions",
            "scope": "Locations or patterns of a feature of interest across space and (or) time. These data can include point data, lines, polygons, and temporal data at any scale relevant to CMSP and can be produced by observation, interpolation, or modeling. Distributions can also include maps or statistics of climatology, the environmental values that are expected to be observed at the present time."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 23,
            "code": "23",
            "name": "Substrate",
            "scope": "Represents the character and composition of the surface and near surface of the sea floor in subtidal or intertidal areas, as defined in the Substrate Component of CMECS or in similar classification systems. Distributions are records of substrate characteristics based on visual or photographic inspection or on analysis of samples and cores, and they also include interpretive maps classifying areas on the basis of combinations of observations, hydrodynamic models, or geological models. Assessments include evaluations of present ecological or economic values of substrate distributions, drivers of substrate change, and functions of substrates. Predictions are the results of models or projections of future substrate distributions, values, or ecological impacts, including predicted substrate changes due to natural and human forces including erosion, accretion, sea-level change, extraction, trawling, or other factors; and they are the results of scenario-based models of substrate changes on ecological or economic values under different management strategies or other human alterations."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "738",
            "name": "marine geophysics",
            "scope": "used for geophysical and related studies of ocean basins and margins."
        }
    ],
    "place_term": [],
    "image": [],
    "fan": [
        "03SCC03"
    ]
}