Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Data Source

Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

bathymetry, computational methods, contouring

ISO 19115 Topic Category

geoscientificInformation, oceans

Other Subject Keywords

distributions, bathymetry and elevation, contours

Place Keywords

Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea

Coastal Bathymetry of the Bering, Chuckhi, and Beaufort Seas

Bathymetric contours were generated from soundings collected by National Ocean Service vessels from ~1900 to ~1971. The 1:250,000 maps are available for U.S. coastal waters. Bathymetric contours are in meters, with 10 meter intervals out to 200 m, supplemented by 2 m contours. Beyond 200 m, contours are at 50 m intervals to maximum depth. The GIS database derived from these maps includes the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas in western and northern Alaska (~100 maps).

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Author(s)	U.S. Geological Survey
Publication Date	1997-04-30
Beginning Date of Data	1899
Ending Date of Data	1971
Data Contact	Alaska Science Center, Marine and Fresh Water Ecology Branch
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Metadata Contact	PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
Metadata Date	2021-11-18
Related Publication	There was no related primary publication associated with this data release.
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Access	public
License	http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/

Harvest Source: Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System
Harvest Date: 2025-01-22T04:21:20.072Z