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- description: This data set contains lithologic information on bottom sediments from the Continental Margin Program. The program
was a joint collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during the 1960s
to conduct a geological reconnaissance investigation of the continental shelf and slope off the Atlantic coast of the United
States. Only those records without complete size analyses and only those stations from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and
southeastern New England shelf and slope are included in this data set. Other stations where detailed textural analyses are
available or are from other areas have been excluded. Furthermore, dredges were used to collect most of the bottom samples,
resulting in winnowing that has resulted in lithologic descriptions that are texturally coarser than actually present. Care
should be taken when using this dataset.; abstract: This data set contains lithologic information on bottom sediments from
the Continental Margin Program. The program was a joint collaboration between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution during the 1960s to conduct a geological reconnaissance investigation of the continental shelf and
slope off the Atlantic coast of the United States. Only those records without complete size analyses and only those stations
from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and southeastern New England shelf and slope are included in this data set. Other stations
where detailed textural analyses are available or are from other areas have been excluded. Furthermore, dredges were used
to collect most of the bottom samples, resulting in winnowing that has resulted in lithologic descriptions that are texturally
coarser than actually present. Care should be taken when using this dataset.
Citation
- Title Lithologic Descriptions from the Continental Margin Program (HATHLITH71 shapefile).
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- creation Date
2017-12-11T20:59:26.425985
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2018-08-07T00:40:47Z
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- notes: This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a dc metadata record; Transform by Stephen M. Richard, based
on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-07T00:40:47Z
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CINERGI Metadata catalog
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Metadata language
eng
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Metadata standard for this record:
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
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2007
Metadata record identifier:
urn:dciso:metadataabout:191a6c53-7bf3-4f66-a12c-3827770c4e52
Metadata record format is ISO19139 XML (MD_Metadata)