| Identifier | 2013-003-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Characterize seabed in state waters south of Martha's Vineyard | ||||||||
| Location | Marthas Vineyard Inner shelf & Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic | ||||||||
| Summary | Mapped 180 km2 of seafloor South of Marthas Vineyard and in Nantucket Sound. Data collected included bathymetry, sub bottom and sonar. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map;Bathymetric maps; | ||||||||
| Comments | Continuation of MassCZM mapping cooperative Project = MCZM/B. Bay & Vineyard Sound, | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | William C SchwabLaura Brothers | ||||||||||||||||
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| Data category: | Sonar, Location-Elevation, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Interferometric, Navigation, Sound Velocity, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i | Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 | |
| SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | Interferometric | 1 | |
| DGPS | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| HYPACK | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Sensor - MVP30 (Odim) | Sound Velocity | (no data reported) | |
| Sensor - SVP | Sound Velocity | (no data reported) | |
| Real Time Kinematic GPS | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Edgetech 4200 sidescan | Sidescan | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| MV_ACK_depth2G | Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i | Elevation of the late Wisconsinan to early Holocene regressive unconformity (Ur) offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts | Elizabeth P Pendleton |
| MV_ACK_backscatter_5m | SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | 5-m backscatter mosaic from south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket produced from sidescan-sonar and interferometric backscatter datasets | Elizabeth P Pendleton |
| Dataset name | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Ntkt_VS_10m | Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, southern coast of Cape Cod including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket: continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf, (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 19 NAD 83, NAVD 88 vertical datum) | Brian Andrews |
| Ntkt_VS_Source | Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, Southern coast of Cape Cod including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket: Polygon boundaries for source data of a continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf: (Esri polygon shapefile, Geographic, NAD 83) | Brian Andrews |
| MV_ACK_physiozone | Physiographic zones of the sea floor offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. | Elizabeth P Pendleton |
| MV_ACK_postGisopach | Holocene fluvial and estuarine (Qfe) and nearshore marine (Qmn) sediment thickness offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. | Elizabeth P Pendleton |
| MV_ACK_sedtexture | Sediment texture of the sea floor offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts created from geophysical and sample data collected from south of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, and are used to characterize the sea floor in the area. | Elizabeth P Pendleton |
| MV_ACK_surfgeology | Interpretation of sea floor geologic units for offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts | Elizabeth P Pendleton |
