Lawrence J. Poppe 2003 1.0 vector digital data Open-File Report 03-001 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U. S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr031 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/anan71/anan71.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/htmldocs/data.htm L.J. Poppe V.F. Paskevich S.J. Williams M.E. Hastings J.T. Kelley D.F. Belknap L.G. Ward D.M. Fitzgerald P.F. Larsen 2003 1.0 Open-File Report 03-001 Reston, VA U. S. Geological Survey 1 CD-ROM http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001 The coastal dunes, beaches, and inner neritic zone of the Merrimack Embayment constitute a petrologic province. In addition to heavy mineral analyses, grain size statistics were generated on most of the samples. Neritic and beach sediments can be differentiated using scatter plots of statistics, but statistical parameters are ineffective in differentiating between river and neritic sediments. The purpose of this data layer is to release a digital version of the textural descriptions published by Anan (1971). 1971 publication date Complete None planned -70.807500 -70.654000 42.909100 42.677900 USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:8e843340-7c0f-47b1-a647-aac39ad5e6d9 None U.S. Geological Survey USGS Woods Hole Field Center sediments texture statistical parameters mean standard deviation skewness kurtosis Open-File Report 03-001 Coastal and Marine Geology Program CMGP sediment classification surficial classification ArcView shapefile points Geographic Information System GIS ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans location geoscientificInformation USGS Thesaurus grain-size analysis navigational data geospatial datasets sea-floor characteristics marine geology None U.S. East Coast Merrimack Embayment shelf New England Massachusetts None Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information. Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/anan71/anan71-thumb.gif Thumbnail image showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage. GIF http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/anan71/anan71.gif Image map showing extent and distribution of data layer coverage. GIF Please review the cross reference information for the original data set credit to Anan (1971), Polly Hastings for digitizing the sampe locations, and Larry Poppe for entering the data from the source report and creating the ArcView shapefile. Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.2.1350 F.S. Anan 1971 1.0 Doctoral Dissertation 377 p. Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts All attributes were entered and checked by the compilers in a consistent manner. No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data. Navigation, statistical parameters, and sample identifiers are provided for 118 stations. Navigation was by sighting three shore-based objects with sextants. Navigational accuracy is unknown. F.S. Anan 1971 1.0 document Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts Doctoral Dissertation, 377 p. paper 1971 publication date Information unavailable from original metadata. Information unavailable from original metadata. Stations were digitized off maps, textural data entered into digital form, and together were imported from an ASCII text file to an ArcView table. The table was later converted to an event theme and saved as the final shapefile. anan71.txt 20021022 anan71.shp anan71.dbf anan71.shx Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov Edits to the metadata were made to fix any errors that MP v 2.9.30 flagged. This is necessary to enable the metadata to be successfully harvested for various data catalogs. In some cases, this meant adding text "Information unavailable" or "Information unavailable from original metadata" for those required fields that were left blank. Other minor edits were probably performed (title, publisher, publication place, etc.). The metadata date (but not the metadata creator) was edited to reflect the date of these changes. The metadata available from a harvester may supersede metadata bundled within a download file. Compare the metadata dates to determine which metadata file is most recent. 20151130 U.S. Geological Survey VeeAnn A. Cross Marine Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 508-548-8700 x2251 508-457-2310 vatnipp@usgs.gov Vector Entity point 118 0.0001 0.0001 Decimal degrees North American Datum of 1927 Clarke 1866 6378206.400000 294.978698 anan71.dbf Shapefile Attribute Table ESRI FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. PROJECTID Names assigned to dataset for identification purposes. Compiler ANAN1971 Information unavailable from original metadata. Information unavailable from original metadata. STATION Unique identifiers assigned to each station Scientist Station names LONGITUDE Longitude coordinate of sample location Scientist 42.6779 42.9091 Decimal Degrees 0.0001 LATITUDE Latitude coordinate of sample location Scientist -70.8075 -70.6540 Decimal Degrees 0.0001 DEVICE Equipment used to collect samples Scientist GRAB Information unavailable from original metadata. Information unavailable from original metadata. MEAN_PHI Mean determined by graphicsal statistics Scientist 0.118 3.751 phi 0.001 STDDEV_PHI Standard deviation determined by graphical statistics Scientist 0.288 1.055 phi 0.001 SKEWNESS Skewness determined by graphical statistics Scientist -0.195 0.626 0.001 KURTOSIS Kurtosis (peakedness) determined by graphical statistics Scientist 0.746 1.922 0.001 LITHOLOGY Textural description of the sediment Compiler Verbal descriptions of the sediment Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov Downloadable Data Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. SHP 3.2 ESRI point shapefile Five files (anan71.shp, anan71.dbf, anan71.shx, anan71.sbx, anan71.sbn) comprising the ArcView point shapefile components, 'prj' and 'avl' files, metadata text file and browse graphic. zip archive 0.003 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/data/seddata/anan71/anan71.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/htmldocs/data.htm Data may be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW). CD-ROM 650 Mbytes ISO & HDF None These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS or ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing the data. A free data viewer, ArcExplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. 2002 20230512 Lawrence J. Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the metadata contact is no longer with the USGS or the email is otherwise invalid. FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time None None