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biota

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Choptank Formation, Paleontology, Foraminifera, Miocene, Holocene, Calvert Formation, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Planktic Foraminifera, Gulf Coastal Plain, Stratigraphy, Benthic Foraminifera, Popes Creek Sand Member, Plum Point Marl Member, Paleoclimate, St. Marys Formation

Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain foraminifera: Digitized and updated taxonomy of Thomas G Gibson’s census data

This foraminiferal census data was originally produced by USGS research Geologist Thomas G. Gibson in the 1960s through the early 2000s. The census data here documenst evidence of foraminifer populations found in sediment samples extracted from four cores from the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Gulf Coastal Plain. These samples represent Pliocene, Middle Miocene and Paleocene-Eocene time intervals. Additionally in 2024 the taxonomy was updated to modern usage for convenient comparison to data produced in recent and ongoing research

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Author(s)	Thomas L Gibson, Seth Sutton, Marci M Robinson
Publication Date	2024-12-04
Beginning Date of Data	2024-09-30
Ending Date of Data	2024-09-30
Data Contact	Marci M. Robinson
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5066/P1YQLFJY
Citation	Gibson, T.L., Sutton, S., and Robinson, M.M., 2024, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain foraminifera: Digitized and updated taxonomy of Thomas G Gibson’s census data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1YQLFJY.
Metadata Contact	Kevin Foley
Metadata Date	2024-12-04
Related Publication	There was no related primary publication associated with this data release.
Citations of these data	No citations of these data are known at this time.
Access	public
License	http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/

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