ATL_CMP: usSEABED component and features data for the entire U.S. Atlantic Coast

• Main Authors: U.S. Geological Survey, University of Colorado
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2005
• Subjects: marine; sediment; seafloor; seabed; descriptions; analyses; usSEABED; dbSEABED; components; features; genesis; U.S. Geological Survey; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; Woods Hole Science Center; Pacific Science Center; Marine Aggregates Resources and Processes Project; Benthic Habitats (Pacific) Project; University of Colorado; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research; USGS; CMGP; WHSC; PSC; UC; INSTAAR; oceans and estuaries; ocean and coastal; location; geoscientificInformation; U.S. Atlantic East Coast; Atlantic Coast; East Coast; United States; Maine; New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia; Florida; Ohio; Great Lakes; Lake Ontario; Lake Erie; North America; Atlantic Ocean; Arctic; Pacific
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/ce13b854-c07a-4ccb-8296-f65201040a51

This component data layer (_CMP.txt) 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.