Point Shapefile of NGDC Locations of Ferromanganese Crusts in the World Ocean Compiled by the USGS in Open-File Report 89-020 (ngdc_ofr89-020.shp)

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Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 2014
Title:

Point Shapefile of NGDC Locations of Ferromanganese Crusts in the World Ocean Compiled by the USGS in Open-File Report 89-020 (ngdc_ofr89-020.shp)

Edition: 1.1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 89-020

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr8920V.1.1
Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/downloads/
Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/downloads/ofr89-020_ngdc.zip
Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: F.T. Manheim
Originator: C.M. Lane-Bostwick
Publication_Date: 1989
Title:

Chemical Composition of Ferromanganese Crusts in the Word Ocean: A Review and Comprehensive Database

Edition: 1.1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 89-020

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr8920V.1.1

Description:

Abstract:

Ferromanganese crusts in the world's oceans may serve as potential sources of metals, such as cobalt and magnesium, valuable to civilian and military industry; these are metals that the United States would otherwise be dependent on foreign sources. Unlike abyssal ferromanganese nodules, which form in areas of low disturbance and high sediment accumulation, ferromanganese crusts have been found to contain three to five times more cobalt than abyssal ferromanganese nodules and can be found on harder, steeper substrates than abyssal plains, which can be too steep for permanent sediment accumulation. Ferromanganese crusts have also been documented on seamounts and plateaus within the U.S. exclusive economic zone in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and are therefore of strategic importance to the United States Government as well as to civilian mining and metallurgical industries. A database containing ferromanganese crust occurrences throughout the world's oceans was assembled from published and unpublished sources to provide data gathering and analytical information for these samples. These data provide the digital formatted locations of the sample locations of the U.S. Geological Survey and Scripps Institution Nodule Data Bank (SNDB) from appendixes A and B. These locations from 1986 and earlier are also represented on the maps of Lane and others (1986).

Manheim, F.T., Lane-Bostwick, C.M., 1989, Chemical composition of ferromanganese crusts in the world ocean: A review and comprehensive database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-020, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/

Purpose:

The purpose of this dataset is to release the information contained in Appendix A section A9 from USGS Open-File Report 89-020 in a GIS compatible format. These data contain station location information for NGDC sites to be used with the analysis information in Table 11 of the chemical composition of ferromanganese crusts in the world oceans (Manheim and Lane-Bostwick, 1989).

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 2014

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -179.339000
East_Bounding_Coordinate: 179.986000
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 54.767000
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -61.883000

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:f7c44b95-1820-42f3-867a-35f4e3ca4328

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: CMGP
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC
Theme_Keyword: NGDC
Theme_Keyword: National Geophysical Data Center
Theme_Keyword: ferromanganese crust
Theme_Keyword: station locations

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Alexandria Digital Library Feature Type Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: mineral deposit areas

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets
Theme_Keyword: sea-floor characteristics
Theme_Keyword: mineral resources
Theme_Keyword: dredge sampling
Theme_Keyword: geochemistry
Theme_Keyword: sedimentary rocks

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None.
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean
Place_Keyword: Indian Ocean

Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints: None.
Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4095

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: C.M. Lane
Originator: F.T. Manheim
Originator: J.C. Hathaway
Originator: T.H. Ling
Publication_Date: 1986
Title: Station Maps of the World Ocean-Ferromanganese-Crust Data Base
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Series_Information:

Series_Name: Miscellaneous Field Studies Map
Issue_Identification: 1869

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/1986/1869/
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/mf1869

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The data in the digital files were only spot checked against the paper report. The same number of records exist in the digital file as in Appendix A section A9.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

The original text file did not use consistent column delimiters. The spacing appeared to be more for appearance than the ability to ingest the information into another software package for analysis or display.

Completeness_Report: All of the data from the downloaded ngdc.txt file are included.
Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The overall accuracy of the data varies and is mostly unknown. However, based on known devices and the time frame of data collection, positional accuracy is assumed to be around 1 kilometer or more.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

No information is recorded in the data files regarding how the depths were measured. Therefore no accuracy value can be assumed.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)

Originator: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Originator: U.S. National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Publication_Date: 1991
Title: U.S. Geological Survey Ferromanganese Crust Data Set
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Series_Information:

Series_Name: NGDC Data Set
Issue_Identification: 1019

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Boulder, CO
Publisher: National Geophysical Data Center

Other_Citation_Details:

This citation refers to the location where the digital data were acquired.

Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/usgscrust.html

Type_of_Source_Media: online
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1991

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FeMn Manheim
Source_Contribution:

The digital file containing the station locations for the NGDC samples whose analysis is listed in Table 11 of OFR 89-020 was downloaded from the site on August 6, 2014. Additional information regarding this file, and the other files downloaded at the same time, is in the README.TXT file that was downloaded with the dataset and included with this reformatted data.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: F.T. Manheim
Originator: C.M. Lane-Bostwick
Publication_Date: 1989
Title:

Chemical Composition of Ferromanganese Crusts in the World Ocean: A Review and Comprehensive Database

Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 89-020

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr8920V.1.1

Type_of_Source_Media: paper
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1989

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: FeMnOFR
Source_Contribution:

The Open-File Report provided the details necessary to complete the metadata.

Process_Step:

Process_Description: The digital ASCII files were downloaded from NGDC.
Process_Date: 20140806
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc.txt
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Brian J. Buczkowski
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: Core Curator and Data Management Specialist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2361
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bbuczkowski@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The file was processed to make it a comma-delimited text file ready for import into ArcMap 9.3.1. The problem was the original file made no consistent use of delimiters and had both tabs and spaces. Additionally, the header was more than one line, and had to be restricted to values that are compatible with an Esri shapefile. This process used VI (version 7.3. running under Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine) to replace tabs with commas, edit the header line, and do some manual editing to make sure the columns of information were consistent. Additionally, the degrees symbol and hemisphere information was separated from the latitude and longitude values to facilitate import into ArcGIS. Determining appropriate columns of information was further complicated by the fact that some of the columns had blanks. The results were compared with Appendix A, part A9 in OFR 89-020 to verify results. This process step and all remaining process steps were performed by the same person - VeeAnn A. Cross.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc.txt
Process_Date: 201408
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_vac2.csv

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The VB 2010 program SchemaGen (a simple VS 2010 tool written by VeeAnn Cross at the USGS in Woods Hole) was used to generate the appropriate field definition information for the schema.ini file. This enables the hard coding of an attribute type when the file is brought into ArcGIS. Creating an appropriate schema.ini file to define the attributes aids in the prevention of data being lost because ArcGIS interprets the field as the wrong attribute type. Although not a problem with this file, this tool also enabled the length of the text fields to be set so they would not all be brought in at width 254. The separate schema file was then incorporated into the schema.ini file that would be used by ArcGIS.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_vac2.csv
Process_Date: 201408
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: schema_ngdc.txt

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The comma-delimited text file was then added to ArcMap 9.3.1 as an event theme and converted to a shapefile. The projection was defined as geographic, NAD 83. This datum was chosen in the absence of detailed datum information provided with the dataset.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_vac2.csv
Process_Date: 201409
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_ofr89-020.shp

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The comma-delimited test file had some blanks. Shapefiles don't allow blanks in numeric fields, those blanks are automatically converted to zeros. No zeros occurred in the original text file in numeric fields. The blank fields, which converted to zeros when the shapefile was created, were replaced with a nodata value of -9999.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_ofr89-020.shp
Process_Date: 201409
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_ofr89-020.shp

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Using XTools Pro (version 7.1.0) in ArcMap 9.3.1 - export the attribute table to a comma-delimited text file using Table Operations - Export Table to Text. Exclude the attribute FID from the export.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_ofr89-020.shp
Process_Date: 201409
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: ngdc_ofr89-020.csv

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Modified the title to move the dataset name from the beginning of the title. Added USGS Thesaurus keywords. Add the DOI link in the identification section and as a network resource name. Also added a DOI link to the cross-reference and added additional elements to that citation. The metadata date (but not the metadata creator) was edited to reflect the date of these changes (20210412). The metadata available from a harvester may supersede metadata bundled within a download file. Compare the metadata dates to determine which metadata file is most recent. Tweaked a thesaurus name (20211117).

Process_Date: 20211117
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross

Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 288

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001
Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: ngdc_ofr89-020
Entity_Type_Definition: Point shapefile.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MMBIB
Attribute_Definition:

Marine Minerals Bibliography number, a unique field that incorporates author and date of publication of reference where data were obtained.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: ASCII text.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Latitude
Attribute_Definition: Latitude of sample location in decimal degrees.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -61.883
Range_Domain_Maximum: 54.767
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: hemns
Attribute_Definition: Indicates the northern or southern hemisphere.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: N
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Northern hemisphere.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Data processor

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: S
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Southern hemisphere.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Data processor.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Longitude
Attribute_Definition: Longitude of sample location in decimal degrees.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -179.339
Range_Domain_Maximum: 179.986
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: hemew
Attribute_Definition: Indicates the eastern or western hemisphere.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: E
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Eastern hemisphere.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Data processor.

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: W
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Western hemisphere.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Data processor.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Depth_m
Attribute_Definition: Depth of sample location in meters. No data value is -9999.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 25
Range_Domain_Maximum: 5960
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Sample
Attribute_Definition:

Assumed that this is a combination of cruise and sample number. Not well defined anywhere.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: ASCII text.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SampDev
Attribute_Definition: Sampling device used to collect the sample.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: ASCII text.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Inst
Attribute_Definition: Institution affiliated with the sample.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Data processor.
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: ASCII text.

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The definitions for the attributes were not readily available in the information downloaded from the NGDC site, nor from Open-File Report 89-020. However, both of these sources did provide some useful information to help in the attribute definitions.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

README.TXT file that was downloaded with the ASCII files from NGDC.

Unfortunately, some of the attributes or their enumerated domains were not thoroughly described in either place.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Brian J. Buczkowski

Contact_Position: Core Curator and Data Management Specialist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2361
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bbuczkowski@usgs.gov

Resource_Description:

ofr89-020_ngdc.zip. This zip file contains the ngdc_ofr89-020 shapefile, the corresponding CSV file, the FGDC CSDGM metadata files (in 4 formats), and the readme.txt file distributed with the files from NGDC.

Distribution_Liability:

Neither the U.S. government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Shapefile
Format_Version_Number: ArcGIS 9.3.1
Format_Information_Content:

WinZip (version 14.0) file contains the shapefile, the comma-delimited text file exported from the shapefile, the FGDC CSDGM metadata, and the readme.txt file distributed with the original ASCII text files at NGDC.

File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip 14.0
Transfer_Size: 0.057

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/downloads/ofr89-020_ngdc.zip
Network_Resource_Name: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr8920V.1.1

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: CSV
Format_Version_Number: XTools Pro v. 7.1
Format_Information_Content:

File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip 14.0
Transfer_Size: 0.057

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0020/downloads/ofr89-020_ngdc.zip
Network_Resource_Name: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr8920V.1.1

Fees: None.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20240318
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross

Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
Contact_Instructions:

The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the person is no longer with USGS. (updated on 20240318)

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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