J.I. Nelson Larry Ward Larry Poppe 2003 1.0 vector digital data Open-File Report 03-001 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U. S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr031 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/nelson86/nelson86.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/htmldocs/data.htm L.J. Poppe V.F. Paskevich S.J. Williams M.E. Hastings J.T. Kelley D.F. Belknap L.G. Ward D.M. Fitzgerald P.F. Larsen 2003 1.0 Open-File Report 03-001 Reston, VA U. S. Geological Survey 1 CD-ROM http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/ The sediment data presented in this data layer were from a geochemical study sited in Great Bay estuarine system of New Hampshire. Textural data were used to support interpretations of trace metal distributions. The analog data were originally converted into digital form for inclusion in a Gulf of Maine Contaminated Sediments Database. The purpose of this data layer is to release a digital version of the data published in Nelson (1986). 1986 publication date Complete None planned -70.926940 -70.759170 43.179170 43.040560 USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:9106eb60-6b6c-4c08-b1c6-a3ceb732d97e None U.S. Geological Survey USGS Woods Hole Science Center UNH University of New Hampshire sediment texture sand fines Open-File Report 03-001 Coastal and Marine Geology Program CMGP surficial sediments sediment classification surficial classification ArcView shapefile points GIS ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans location geoscientificInformation USGS Thesaurus grain-size analysis navigational data geospatial datasets sea-floor characteristics marine geology None Great Bay New England New Hampshire Estuarine System Estuary Weeks Point Rollins Farm Boston Harbor Broad Cove Nobles Island U.S. East Coast Atlantic Ocean None Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information. Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/nelson86/nelson86-thumb.gif Thumbnail image showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage. GIF http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/nelson86/nelson86.gif Image map showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage. GIF Please view the cross reference information for the original data set credit to Nelson (1986). Larry Ward (UNH) for entering the data from the source report, and Larry Poppe for creating the ArcView shapefile. Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.2.1350 J.I. Nelson 1986 1.0 Master's Thesis 159 p. Durham, NH University of New Hampshire All attributes were checked by the compilers in a consistent manner. No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on the data Identifiers, navigation, and grain-size data are provided for 23 stations. Navigational accuracy unknown. J.I. Nelson 1986 1.0 Master's Thesis 159 p. Durham,NH University of New Hampshire paper 1986 publication date Information unavailable from original metadata. Information unavailable from original metadata. The source information was manually entered into digital form and was imported from an ASCII text file to an ArcView table. The table was later converted to an event theme and saved as the final shapefile. nelson86.txt 20021101 nelson86.shp nelson86.shx nelson86.dbf Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov Edits to the metadata were made to fix any errors that MP v 2.9.32 flagged. This is necessary to enable the metadata to be successfully harvested for various data catalogs. In some cases, this meant adding text "Information unavailable" or "Information unavailable from original metadata" for those required fields that were left blank. Other minor edits were probably performed (title, publisher, publication place, etc.). The metadata date (but not the metadata creator) was edited to reflect the date of these changes. 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. 20151202 U.S. Geological Survey VeeAnn A. Cross Marine Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 508-548-8700 x2251 508-457-2310 vatnipp@usgs.gov Vector Entity point 23 0.00001 0.00001 Decimal degrees North American Datum of 1927 Clarke 1866 6378206.400000 294.978698 nelson86.dbf Shapefile Attribute Table ESRI FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. LOCAL_ID Geographic name assigned to identify stations Scientist Character string of width 33. REFERENCE Author and year of publication Compiler Character string of width 18. LATITUDE Latitude coordinate of sample location Information unavailable from original metadata. 43.04056 43.17917 decimal degrees 0.00001 LONGITUDE Longitude coordinate of sample location Scientist -70.92694 -70.75917 decimal degrees 0.00001 SAND Percentage of sand in samples Scientist 5 95 percent 1 FINES Percentage of fines (silt plus clay) in samples Scientist 5 93 percent 1 LITHOLOGY Textural descriptions of the sediment Compiler Verbal descriptions of the sediment Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov Downloadable Data Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. 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. SHP 3.2 ESRI point shapefile Five files (nelson86.shp, nelson86.dbf, nelson86.shx, nelson86.sbx, nelson86.sbn) comprising the ArcView point shapefile components, 'prj' and 'avl' files, metadata text file and browse graphic. zip 0.03 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/nelson86/nelson86.zip Data may be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW). CD-ROM 650 Mbytes ISO 9660 The user must have a computer system with a CD-ROM available. To browse the information contained on this CD-ROM, the user must have a current WWW browser available. The user must also have software installed on their computer to unzip the archived file. None These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS or ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing the data. A free data viewer, ArcExplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. 2002 20211116 Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (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 or the email is otherwise invalid. FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time None None