Seismic-Reflection Profiles in SEG-Y Format From Southern Rhode Island Sound

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2009
• Subjects: U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Woods Hole Science Center; WHSC; R/V Asterias; high-resolution seismic; geophysical data; Uniboom seismic reflection; Open-File Report 2009-1003; OFR 2009-1003; SEG-Y; Cruise AST-80-6B; Field activity number 80012; geoscientificInformation; oceans; distributions; substrate; seismic reflection; marine geophysics; seismic reflection methods; sub-bottom profiling; Southern Rhode Island Sound; Rhode Island; U.S. East Coast; North America; United States; Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic Ocean; northeast United States; Massachusetts; Cox Ledge; Muskeget Channel; Nantucket Sound; Loran; Nantucket; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/26787d95-f13e-4ac7-b385-bd6d207c274c

During 1980, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a seismic-reflection survey utilizing Uniboom seismics in southern Rhode Island Sound aboard the Research Vessel Asterias. This cruise totalled 3 survey days. Data from this survey were recorded in analog form and archived at the USGS. Due to recent interest in the geology of Rhode Island Sound and in an effort to make the data more readily accessible while preserving the original paper records, the seismic data from this cruise were scanned and converted to TIFF images and SEG-Y data files. Navigation data were converted from LORAN-C time delays to latitudes and longitudes, which are available in ESRI shapefile format and as eastings and northings in space-delimited text format.