ECSTDB2014.SHP: U.S. Geological Survey East Coast Sediment Texture Database (2014)

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2014
• Subjects: U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center; WHCMSC; surficial sediments; grain size analyses; simple bottom descriptions; grab sampler; coring; seafloor geology; sedimentary dynamics; sedimentary processes; strataform; particle-size analysis; ArcGIS shapefile; point data; ArcGIS point shapefile; Geographic Information System; GIS; sample location; oceans and estuaries; location; geoscientificInformation; oceans; inlandWaters; U.S. Atlantic East Coast; continental United States; east coast; Atlantic Margin; Florida Platform; Gulf of Mexico; Great Lakes; Arizona; California; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Illinois; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Nevada; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Virginia; Washington; New England; Pacific; Bermuda; Puerto Rico; Hawaiian Islands; continental shelf; continental slope; Canada; Nova Scotia; Italy; Russia; West Florida Shelf; Albemarle Sound; Alligator River, NC; Atlantic Canyon; Baltimore Canyon; Bay of Fundy; Bear Seamount; Blake Escarpment; Blake Nose; Blake Plateau; Blake Ridge; Block Canyon; Block Island Sound; Boston; Boston Harbor; Browns Bank; Buzzards Bay; Cape Ann; Cape Charles; Cape Cod Bay; Cape Cod National Seashore Park; Cape Elizabeth; Cape Hatteras; Cape Henry; Cape Fear; Cape Fear Ridge; Cape Lookout; Cape May; Cape Romain; Cape Sable; Casco Bay; Cashes Ledge; Charleston; Chesapeake Bay; Corsair Canyon; Delaware Bay; Delaware River; Delmar Peninsula; Deep Water Dumpsite 106; Dogbone Basin; DWD 106; Escollo Arenas; Falkner Island; Florida Keys; Fire Island; Georges Bank; Gilbert Canyon; Gulf of Maine; Grand Manan Island; Heel Tapper Canyon; Hudson Canyon; Hudson River; Hudson Shelf Valley; Hudson Valley; Hydrographer Canyon; Indiana Shoals; Inner Blake Plateau; Inner Shelf; Ipswich Bay; Isle of Shoals; Jeffreys Basin; Jeffreys Ledge; John Day Reservoir; Kennebec; Lake Titicaca; Lake Baikal; Lake Mead; Lake Michigan; Little Bahama Bank; Long Island Sound; Los Angeles; Lydonia Canyon; Mackenzie Delta; Marblehead; Marthas Vineyard; Massachusetts Bay; Mass Bay; Mexico; Mid-Atlantic Bight; Mid-Atlantic Slope; Mississippi Fan; Monomoy Island; Murray Basin; Nantucket; Nantucket Bay; Nantucket Shoals; Nantucket Sound; Narragansett Bay; Neuse River; New Haven Dumpsite; New Haven Harbor; NYNJ; NY-NJ; New York/New Jersey; New York Bight; New York Harbor; Norfolk Canyon; Northeast Channel; Ocean City; Oceanographer Canyon; Oculina Bank; Old Orchard Beach; Oqunquit; Oregon Inlet; Peak Island; Platts Bank; Plum Island; Plymouth; Popham; Popham/Kennebec; Roanoke Point; Saco Bay; Scotian Shelf; South Lake Michigan; Southwest Washington; Sandwich Harbor; Somes Sound; SBNMS; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; Southern Long Island; Southwest Puerto Rico Shelf; Toms Canyon; Veatch Canyon; Vineyard Sound; Western Puerto Rico Shelf; Western Long Island Sound; Wilkinson Basin; Wilmington Canyon; Wrightsville Beach; Nomans Land; Alaska; New Brunswick; Apalachicola Bay; Arabian Sea; Bay of Bengal; Sapelo Island; Broad Sound; Cape Neddick; Caribbean Sea; Cascadia; Chappaquiddick Island; Croatan Sound; Double Canyon; Nahant; Old Scantum; Tillies Basin; Wildcat Knolls; Chincoteaque Inlet; Bogue Inlet; Rehobeth Beach; East Channel; Cape Porpoise; Fletcher Neck; Graves; Jewell Island; Wood Island; Norway; Fippennies Ledge; Georges Basin; Georgia Embayment; Gerda Terrace; Ghana; Great Round Shoal; Great South Channel; Kentucky; Lamberts Cove; Susquehanna River; Merrimack River; Merrimack Embayment; Altamaha River; Mytilus Seamount; New Hampshire; Palos Verdes; Pamlico Sound; Penobscot; Quicks Hole; Red Brook Harbor; Rhode Island Sound; Long Bay; slope; Southern New England; St. Clair River; St. Catherines Sound; Stellwagen Basin; Straits of Florida; Tarpaulin Cove; Texas; Washington Canyon; Welker Canyon; West Falmouth Harbor; Wyoming; coastal Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory; Port Valdez; Ressurection Bay; Chappaquoit Beach; North Slope, AK; Chandeleur Islands, LA; Barnegat Bay; Connecticut River; Buzzards Bay/Vineyard Sound; Provincetown Harbor; Ogunquit River, ME; Arctic Ocean; Connecticut River Estuary; Dauphin Island, AL; Little Egg Harbor; Mona Block; Mona Canyon; Mona Slide; Desecho Ridge; Barracuda Bank; Noroit Seamount; north wall Virgin Islands Basin; Stellwagen Bank; Fire Island, NY; Arctic; Hudson; Long Island; Manan; Lookout; Wilkinson; Browns; Block Island; Ann Cape; Ann, Cape; Dauphin Island; May Cape; Mead Lake; Lookout Cape; north slope
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This sediment database contains location, description, and texture of samples taken by numerous marine sampling programs. Most of the samples are from the Atlantic Continental Margin of the United States, but some are from as diverse locations as Lake Baikal, Russia, the Hawaiian Islands region, Pue...