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USGS Data Source

St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

coastal processes, digitization, aerial photography

ISO 19115 Topic Category

environment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, boundaries

Other Subject Keywords

Shoreline data, Shoreline map

Place Keywords

Great Bay, USA, Atlantic Ocean, Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Barnegat Bay, Absecon Bay, Manahawkin Bay, Little Bay, Reed Bay, NJ

Shorelines for Barnegat and Great Bay, NJ: 1839 to 2012 (ver 1.1, December 2017)

This data set represents vector shorelines for the New Jersey coastline (Point Pleasant, NJ to Longport, NJ) from 1839 to 2012. Data were obtained from multiple data sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). Shorelines were obtained from the original provider and merged into a single file in order to conduct shoreline change analysis for the open-ocean and estuarine shorelines of Barnegat and Great Bay, New Jersey.

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Author(s)	Kathryn Smith , Joseph F Terrano
Publication Date	2017-08-09
Beginning Date of Data	1839-01-01
Ending Date of Data	2012-01-01
Data Contact	Kathryn E.L. Smith
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5066/F75X275C
Citation	Smith, K., and Terrano, J.F., 2017, Shorelines for Barnegat and Great Bay, NJ: 1839 to 2012 (ver 1.1, December 2017): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F75X275C.
Metadata Contact	Kathryn E.L. Smith
Metadata Date	2020-10-13
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/

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