Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen(comp.)
2002
Navigation Points for CERC Cores (CERCNAV)
vector digital data
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
2002-002
Woods Hole Field Center
U.S. Geological Survey
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr022
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of02-002/data/cores/cerc/
Larry Poppe(comp.)
Valerie Paskevich(comp.)
2002
Geological Framework Data from Long Island Sound, 1981-1990: a digital data release
atlas
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
2002-002
Woods Hole, MA
U. S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr022
This GIS layer contains the station navigation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) cores collected in Long Island Sound. These cores were originally collected in 1967 as part of the Inner Continental Shelf Sediment and Structure (ICONS) program to appraise sand resources.
The purpose is to disseminate a digital version of a regional map showing the distribution of vibra cores collected in Long Island Sound as part of the ICONS program of the USACOE. These cores can be used to provide useful information about the framework geology in this region.
When the USACOE ICONS program was active, each of the 18 project areas was stand-alone and covered sites on the East, West , and Gulf coasts and Great Lakes. The numbering system was the same throughout this program, but was restarted for each set of cores (e.g. those from Long Island Sound had their own set of IDs). Therefore each area had a core no. 1 and the core IDs increased numerically with that area. Andrew Grosz (USGS), who used the cores for a heavy-mineral assessment, wanted a more national perspective so he had a new, continuous set of numbers assigned to the approximately 1500 cores that George Burbank at Hampton University split and described (USGSID). Because not all of the cores collected from an area as part of the ICONS program were used in the CERC Technical Reports, some cores do not have data in the CERCID (originally 81_1ID) field.
1981
publication date
None planned
-73.747002
-71.575302
41.316750
40.880329
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:995e6a00-49ea-43d5-9e47-20cac4e2e7b9
None
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Coastal and Marine Geology Team
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Woods Hole Field Center
ArcView
arcview
shapefile
navigation
vibracores
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USACE
core locations
cores
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
location
USGS Thesaurus
navigational data
marine geology
geospatial datasets
drilling and coring
vibracoring
None
Long Island Sound
Connecticut
New York
Block Island Sound
Fishers Island Sound
Rhode Island
None
The U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must be referenced as the originator of the dataset in any future products or research derived from these data.
Although this derived data set and its lineage dataset have been used by the USGS and Connecticut DEP, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or CT DEP as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS or CT DEP in the use of these data or related materials.
U. S. Geological Survey
Larry Poppe
Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2314
(508) 457-2310
lpoppe@usgs.gov
0800-1600
../../../htmldocs/images/browse/cercnav.gif
location of CERC cores shown in relationship to Long Island Sound area
GIF
Jeff Williams the original USACOE project chief; and Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen and Valerie Paskevich for completing the Arc processing and creation of the GIS data layer.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.1.649
Jeff Williams(comp.)
1981
Sand resources and geological character of Long Island Sound
map
USACOE Coastal Engineering Research Center
Technical Paper 81-3
Fort Belvoir, VA
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
All attribute data were entered and checked by the compilers in a consistent manner.
No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data set.
Core locations are provided for 96 cores with unique core ids (USGS assigned), 73 of these cores have ID's that correspond to the Williams (1981) technical paper. Core descriptions are not available for every core location.
80,000 scale.
Tides are less than 2 m
2
Tides are less than 2 m.
various(comp.)
Unknown
CERC / ICONS coring cruise unpublished data
map
80,000
Vibra corer cruise mylar navigation plot
unknown
publication date
CERC core locations
Vibra cores were collected as part of the USACOE's ICONS program. This dataset contains the locations of those cores collected in Long Island Sound.
80,000 scale mylar plots of the core locations (either provided by, or based upon the original navigation system plots) were registered and digitized (using a Calcomp 9100 table and PC Arc/Info) to create point coverages with CT state plane coordinates. Attributes (COREID and 81_1ID) for coreids were added.
LIS CERC core location mylar plots
1991
CERC core location coverage
Connecticut DEP
Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen
mailing and physical address
Long Island Sound Resource Center
UCONN Avery Point
1080 Shennecossett Road
Groton
CT
06340
USA
(860) 405-9015
lisrc@uconnvm.uconn.edu
The navigation coverage was projected to Latitude/Longitude using Arc/Info. Decimal degree coordinates were ungenerated and joined to the attribute table. Some attribute data (IDs corresponding to the Williams (1981) were added. A shapefile was generated using ArcView.
CERC core location coverage
2001
CERC shapefiles
Connecticut DEP
Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen
mailing and physical address
Long Island Sound Recource Center
UCONN Avery Point
1080 Shennecossett Road
Groton
CT
06340
USA
(860)405-9015
lisrc@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Additional IDs (corresponding to the Williams (1981)) were added.
CERC shapefiles
20020208
cercnav.dbf
cercnav.shp
cercnav.shx
cercnav.sbx
cercnav.sbn
Valerie Paskevich
U.S. Geological Survey
Computer Specialist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
The original field names, 81_1ID (Z1_1ID) and COREID were changed to field names CERCID and USGSID to be more descriptive.
cercnav.dbf
20020401
1430
cercnav.dbf
Valerie Paskevich
U.S. Geological Survey
Computer Specialist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
The metadata was edited to remove errors as well as update some information. Edits include updating the citation section with the DOI link and modifying the title, added the USGS Thesaurus and ISO 19115 Topic Category thesaurus, added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword, added link to cross-reference, used a generic email address in metadata, replaced distribution liability with FSP statement. Other blank fields were deleted. The metadata date (20020402), but not the contact (except email and contact instructions) was updated. The metadata available from a harvester may supersede metadata available from the publication. Compare the metadata dates to determine which metadata file is most recent.
20210818
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
Mailing and Physical
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
Vector
Entity point
97
0.0000001
0.0000001
Decimal degrees
North American Datum of 1927
Clarke 1866
6378206.400000
294.978698
cercnav
shapefile attribute table
ESRI
FID
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Point
Coordinates defining the features.
information not available from original metadata
Coordinates defining the features.
CRUISEID
Name given to cruise during which the cores were collected.
assigned
CERC
US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC)
USACE/CERC Technical Paper 81-3
1981
LON
Longitude in decimal degrees of the core location as plotted
compiler
-71.575302
-73.747002
Decimal degrees
0.000001
1981
LAT
Latitude in decimal degrees of the core location as plotted
compiler
40.880329
41.316750
decimal degrees
0.000001
1981
USGSID
Core number assigned by the USGS (Andrew Grosz)
USGS
382
1298
integers
1
CERCID
Numbers assigned to cores in CERC Technical Paper 81_3 (Williams, 1981). When the USACOE ICONS program was active, each of the 18 project areas was stand-alone and covered sites on the East, West , and Gulf coasts and Great Lakes. The numbering system was the same throughout this program, but was restarted for each set of cores (e.g. those from Long Island Sound had their own set of IDs). Therefore each area had a core no. 1 and the core IDs increased numerically with that area. Andrew Grosz (USGS), who used the cores for a heavy-mineral assessment, wanted a more national perspective so he had a new, continuous set of numbers assigned to the approximately 1500 cores that George Burbank at Hampton University split and described. Because not all of the cores collected from an area as part of the ICONS program were used in the CERC Technical Reports, some cores do not have data in the CERCID field.
Jeff Williams
1
78
integers and letters
1981
DATE
Year core was collected.
compiler
1967
calendar year
CERC Technical Report 81-3
This datalayer (navigation of the CERC cores from LIS) provides information location of vibra cores used to interpret the geologic framework and sand resources.
Geological Framework Data from Long Island Sound, 1981-1990: a digital release
U. S. Geological Survey
Larry Poppe
Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508)548-8700 x2314
(508) 457-2310
lpoppe@usgs.gov
Long Island Sound: cerc.shp
Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
ArcView shapefile
The seven ArcView shapefiles (cercnav.dbf, cercnav.shp, cercnav.shx, cercnav.sbn, cercnav.sbx, cercnav.avl and cercnav.prj) comprising the navigation data for the USACOE vibracores collected in Long Island Sound and an ASCII text version of the metadata file.
zip
1
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr022
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of02-002/data/cores/cerc/
DVD
4.7
Gbytes
UDF
The user must have a system with a DVD drive capable of reading an UDF standard DVD-R disk. To browse the information contained on this disk, the user must also have a current version of WWW browser available. The user must also have the software installed on their computer system capable to unzip the archived file.
none
None
The navigation overlay for the CERC cores is available in an ArcViewshapefile format. The user must have ESRI's ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of Arcview, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing the data.
20020630
20210901
Valerie Paskevich
U. S. Geological Survey
Computer Specialist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the metadata contact is no longer with the USGS.
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time