usSEABED EEZ

Information drawn from known sediment samples, inspections, and probes of the sea floor within the United States Exclusive Economic Zone, an area of the oceans near the coastline of the US.

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legend for ext Extracted
legend for prs Parsed
legend for clc Calculated
legend for one Combined (includes all above)
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Reference
Buczkowski, B.J., Reid, J.A., Schweitzer, P.N., Cross, V.A., and Jenkins, C.J., 2020, usSEABED—Offshore surficial-sediment database for samples collected within the United States Exclusive Economic Zone: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H3LGWM.

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Extracted (US9_EXT) sediment texture data from lab-based, numeric analyses.

Parsed (US9_PRS) sediment texture data mined from logs, descriptions, and notes.

Calculated (US9_CLC) sediment texture data calculated or estimated by standard derivative equations.

Combined (US9_ONE) a single but less duplicative data coverage that combines EXT, PRS, and CLC data.

Facies (US9_FAC) combined components and facies information.

Components (US9_CMP) individual component and feature information.

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