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USGS Data Source

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

marine geophysics, sub-bottom profiling, seismic reflection methods

Other Subject Keywords

SEG-Y, seismic reflection, distributions, marine geophysics, Chirp, Datasonics SIS 1000, substrate, seismic reflection profiling

Place Keywords

Long Island inner shelf, Atlantic Ocean, NY, New York, Fire Island

USGS Seafloor Mapping DIAN 97032 Chirp Subbottom Data offshore of the New York - New Jersey metropolitan area

This DVD-ROM contains digital high resolution seismic reflection data collected during the USGS DIAN 97032 cruise. The coverage is the nearshore of Long Island, NY in the vicinity of Fire Island. The seismic-reflection data are stored as SEG-Y standard format that can be read and manipulated by most seismic-processing software. Much of the information specific to the data are contained in the headers of the SEG-Y format files. The file system format is ISO 9660 which can be read with DOS, Unix, and MAC operating systems with the appropriate DVD-ROM driver software installed.

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Author(s)	Bill Schwab
Publication Date	1997
Beginning Date of Data	1997-09-20
Ending Date of Data	1997-10-20
Data Contact	Schwab, Bill
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Metadata Contact	Foster, David
Metadata Date	2024-03-18
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