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Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Data Source

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

sea-floor characteristics, grain-size analysis, navigational data, geospatial datasets, marine geology

ISO 19115 Topic Category

location, oceans, geoscientificInformation

Other Subject Keywords

WHSC, texture, Woods Hole Science Center, surficial classification, USGS, sediment classification, point shapefile, CMGP, points, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, sediments, U.S. Geological Survey, grain size, GIS, Open-File Report 03-001

Place Keywords

Buzzards Bay, New England, U.S. East Coast, Massachusetts, Atlantic Ocean

Sediments of Buzzards Bay acquired in 1963 (MOORE63 shapefile)

A study of bottom sediment samples from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, provides a basis for establishing their major depositional facies and their relationships to the environmental framework. Texturally the sands tend to occur in shoaling areas of greater tidal-current activity, while the argillaceous sediments are deposited in deeper bathymetric entrapments.

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Author(s) Lawrence J. Poppe
Publication Date 2003
Beginning Date of Data 1963
Ending Date of Data 1963
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Lawrence J. Poppe
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Metadata Date 2021-11-16
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Harvest Source: Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System
Harvest Date: 2025-01-22T04:21:20.072Z