ECSTDB2005 - U.S. Geological Survey East Coast Sediment Texture Database (2005)

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2005
• Subjects: U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Woods Hole Science Center; WHSC; surficial sediments; grain size analyses; simple bottom descriptions; grab sampler; coring; mud patch; seafloor geology; sedimentary dynamics; sedimentary processes; strataform; particle-size analysis; marine sediments; point data; point shapefile; Geographic Information System; GIS; sample location; Open-File Report 2005-1001; OFR 2005-1001; OFR2005-1001; oceans; oceans and estuaries; oceans and coastal; location; geoscientificInformation; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Sediments > Sediment Chemistry; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Sediments > Sediment Composition; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Sediments > Sedimentary Textures; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Sediments > Sedimentation; 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; Albermarle Sound; Aligator 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; Ann Cape; Ann, Cape; Block Island; Browns; Hudson; Long Island; Lookout; Lookout Cape; Manan; May Cape; Mead Lake; Wilkinson
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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...