LA_CMP: usSEABED CoMPonent data for the Louisiana Region

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2007
• Subjects: analyses; CMGP; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; dbSEABED; descriptions; geology; grain size; Marine Aggregates Resources and Processes; seabed; seafloor; sediment data; texture; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; usSEABED; Woods Hole Science Center; University of Colorado; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research; Benthic Habitats (Pacific) Project; Pacific Science Center; WHSC; PSC; INSTAAR; oceans and estuaries; location; geoscientificInformation; Oceans; Marine Sediments; Biogenic Sediments; Sediment Chemistry; Sediment Composition; Sediment Textures; Sedimentation; Terrigenous Sediments; Louisiana; Ship Shoal; Trinity Shoal; Gulf Coast; New Orleans; United States; Gulf of Mexico; Arctic; Orleans; Pacific
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/716ffd1c-3f0b-435c-b718-9f9ccc39b422

This component data layer (CMP) file gives information about selected components (minerals, rock type, microfossils, benthic biota) and seafloor features (bioturbation, structure, ripples) at a given site. Values in the attribute fields represent the membership to that attribute's fuzzy set. For components such as minerals, rocks, micro-biota and plants, and/or epifauna and infauna, corals and other geologic and biologic information, the value depends on sentence structure and other components in description. For features (denoted by an asterisk) such as ripples, ophiuroids, sponges, shrimp, worm tubes, lamination, lumps, grading, and/or bioturbation, the value of the fuzzy set depends on the development of the attribute. Only the relative fuzzy presence of components and features can be determined; the absence of information does not indicate a lack of the attribute, only lack of information about that attribute.