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Surficial sediment data from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and vicinity, a GIS compilation
Coastal and Marine Geology Program (Geological Survey)
Contains a compilation of over 49,000 textural data and lithologic descriptions generated on surficial sediment samples. Many of the 42 layers were compiled from gray literature or unpublished sources and have not been available in digital form prior to this publication. These data layers have been converted to the ESRI shapefile format for use in a GIS.
by L.J. Poppe [and others] ; U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Metadata for the individual data layers are provided in three versions (HTML, FAQ, text).
Also available via Internet from the USGS web site. Address as of 10/10/03: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/; current access is available via PURL.
System requirements: PC with CD-ROM drive, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, or Macintosh operating systems. Access is via HyperText Markup Language (HTML) used by the World Wide Web (WWW), using Web browsers (i.e., Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, Netscape 4.0 or later). Geographic information systems (e.g. ArcView, ArcExplorer, MapInfo), must have the ability to handle data in Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) "shapefile" format. In addition, sediment data and sample identifiers are also supplied in flat-file format and Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files.
U.S. Geological Survey open-file report ; 03-001