Aeromagnetic and Bouger Gravity Data from Bolivia, 1999
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Bolivian Altiplano and Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia, aeromagnetic and gravity data.
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BLM/OCS South Texas Outer Continental Shelf (STOCS) Data Set
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This data set contains analytical data from samples acquired from the South Texas Outer Continental Shelf (STOCS) Project, part of the BLM/OCS program funded by NOAA and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
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BLM/OCS Southern California Studies
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Data in this file were produced by Science Applications Inc., prime contractor on the Bureau of Land Management/Outer Continental Shelf- Southern California studies (BLM/OCS). The data were received at NGDC via NODC on August 19, 1997. Documentation has been transcribed to the README file accompanying the data. No paper report exists. Additional data codes and documentation are in poor, extremely hard to read condition. Some parts of the documentation are available in the .pdf file referenced above.
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Base de Donnees Geochimiques des Depots Ferromanganesifers d'Origine Oceanique Lacustre et Fossile
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The Centre National Pour l'Exploitation des Oceans (CNEXO) ferromanganese nodule analysis files consist of geochemical data from published reports pertaining to oceanic ferromanganese deposits, including Russian, since 1891. Data were compiled under the direction of J.M. Monget of Ecoles de Mines, Paris through 1976 and contain data for nearly 200 core, dredge, and grab samples. Data include method of analysis, oxide/item/element concentrations, location, water depth, sample lithology, and bibliographic references. The CNEXO data are also available as part of the NGDC marine minerals database and are offered on the NOAA & MMS Marine Minerals CD-ROM data set released by NGDC in October of 1992.
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Buccaneer Oil Field Data Set
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This data set contains analytical data from samples acquired from the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico area under contract to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during 1978-1979. Individual contractors included researchers from Rice University, Moody College, and Texas A & M University. Most samples were taken from the R/V Gus III. The project was known as the "Buccaneer Oil Field" project.
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CLIMAP 120K Data Set
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The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction) Project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). Collection and analysis of cores for the 120K bp CLIMAP set was carried out by several institutions; data were compiled by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Data include micropaleontology, carbonate percentages, carbon 14 age dates, sea surface temperature estimates, and oxygen and carbon isotopic data for 52 ocean sediment cores. Data cover the period from 140,000 to 100,000 years before present and are global in extent.
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CLIMAP 18K Data Set
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This data set contains the data files of the CLIMAP project for 18,000 BP, including planktonic counts and core mineralogy. Raw data are contained in the file sed.dat, documentation is incorporated in this README file. Files ending in *.txt were derived by WDC-A for Paleoclimatology at NGDC. Related files including sea surface temperature estimates and surface conditions are available through the WDC-A for Paleoclimatology, including SST models.
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Carbonate Data from LDEO and Brown University
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LDEO Carbonate data were compiled under the direction of A. Esmay and W.F. Ruddiman at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Data include CaCO3 percentages by interval down core for 328 sediments cores, principally from the Atlantic ocean. Weight percentages of calcium carbonate in the Brown file were compiled by J. Farrell and W. L. Prell of Brown University for 17 equatorial Pacific Ocean sediment cores.
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Deck41 Surficial Seafloor Sediment Data
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The NGDC "Deck41" database contains surficial sediment descriptions for over 36,000 seafloor samples worldwide. Data include collecting source, ship, cruise, sample id, latitude/longitude, date of collection, water depth, sampling device, dominant lithology, secondary lithology, and a brief description of the surficial sediment at the location.
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Fichier de la Lithotheque Nationale D'Echantillons Marins
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This data set is a 1985 listing of the holdings of the French National Core Repository. In 1975 the BRGM and CNEXO in France joined to create a national marine geological sampling center at the Centre Oceanologique de Bretagne in Brest. This center collects and stores samples of the sea bottom and subbottom from all over the world and makes them available to any person or institution interested in their study.
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Geological Hazard Photos, 1997
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Collection of photographs of damage from natural hazards in TIF, GIF, and JPG formats. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides and other geologic hazards are represented.
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Heat Flow Data Cruise MD72 RV Marion Dufresne Universite Francaise du Pacifique
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Data were gathered by the R/V Marion Dufresne in May and June of 1992 over the Mascarene Ridge in the Indian Ocean on cruise MD72/MASCAFLUX. Heat flow measurements for 96 in-situ readings including both thermal conductivity and thermal gradient were recorded along two profiles perpendicular to the mascarene ridge.
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Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples
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The Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples is a collaboration between twenty institutions and agencies that operate geological sample repositories. The purpose of the database is to help researchers locate sea floor and lakebed cores, grabs, dredges, and drill samples in their collections.
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Japan Oceanographic Data Center Sediment File
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This file was compiled by the Japan Oceanographic Data Center using the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Marine Geological Data Format in use at the time of its origin (see readme file). It includes 748 master records and 1740 data records. It contains information on unconsolidated sediments and hard rocks from the seafloor, including station location, collecting institution and ship, date of collection, type of collecting device, analysis method(s), grain size information, biogenous components, structure, non-biogenous components, age, sediment color, and remarks. Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are also noted including encrustations, and erratics.
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LDEO Carbon 14 Data Files
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Carbon-14 data in this file were compiled by W.F. Ruddiman and staff at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Data include 974 carbon-14 dates from 309 ocean sediments cores, covering the period from 40,000 years bp to the present worldwide. Estimated error range is given. Also included are core identifier, latitude/longitude, water depth, depth in core, institutional source, laboratory number, and sediment fraction analyzed (total, bulk, or fine fraction).
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LDEO Fossil Plankton Stratigraphies Database 1
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Data include foraminifer census counts and sea surface temperature estimates derived from marine sediment cores from the north Atlantic Ocean. Documentation for the faunal data is at the end of this README.faunal1 file. Documentation for the SST data is in file README.sst. The data set includes counts by Dr.'s Ruddiman, Kellogg, and Sancetta. The readme files contain complete documentation of the formats, counting methods, and SST transfer functions.
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Marine Geology Inventory
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The NGDC marine geology inventory provides searches of, and links to all digital and analog data archived by NGDC. All digital data files are available for free download, and most data reports are viewable in .PDF form, through inventory searches. Search results include links to related data and information.
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Marine Sediment Grainsize Database
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The NGDC grain size database contains particle size data for over 17,000 seafloor samples worldwide. The file was begun by NGDC in 1976 in response to a need by the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) for a detailed, digital file of textural analyses. Data are from OCSEAP studies, academic institutions, environmental baseline studies conducted under contract to the Bureau of Land Management for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Program, and from laboratory reports generated by the US Navy.
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NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-104 EBSSED Database
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Smith, K.R., and R.A. McConnaughey, 1999, Surficial sediments of the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf: EBSSED database documentation. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-104, 41 p.
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PETROS Igneous Petrology Databank version 6.1
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PETROS is a worldwide data bank of major element chemical analyses of igneous rocks compiled for research and teaching purposes by Dr. Felix Mutschler and staff at Eastern Washington University. PETROS version 6.1 includes 37,300 major element chemical analyses divided into 307 major groups representing geographic areas or petrologic provinces. Also included are 468 average igneous rock compositions calculated by various authors, a bibliography of information sources, and complete format/operating instructions for PETROS.
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Project Magnet, 1996
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Complete compilation of digital high-level vector aeromagnetic data collected from 1951-1994 through the DoD Project Magnet.
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Records of Lead and other Heavy Metal Inputs, Sediment Cores from Ala Wai Canal, Oahu, Hawaii
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De Carlo, Eric H. and Khalil J. Spencer, 1995, Records of Lead and Other Heavy Metal Inputs to Sediments of the Ala Wai Canal, O'ahu, Hawai'i, Pacific Science vol. 49, no. 4, p. 571-491.
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SIO Ferromanganese Nodule Analysis File
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography compiled data on the geochemistry of marine ferromanganese nodules as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration, funded by the National Science Foundation. The files were discontinued in 1981. The SIO files contain data from approximately 1,500 samples collected at 800 locations worldwide. Data were abstracted from the literature, and other sources.
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SIO Manganese Nodule Sediment Description File
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography compiled descriptions of sediment samples related to ferromanganese deposits, funded through the IDOE, as part of the SIO world sediment data bank. Nodule description data are for approximately 200 core, dredge, and grab samples worldwide. Data include lithology, percent CaCO3, constituents by grain size, organic material/fossils, ages, other features, and minerals.
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SIO Southeast Asian Sediment Description (SEATAR) Data Set
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The SEATAR files were compiled by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with funds from IDOE/NSF, as part of the SIO world sediment data bank, under the direction of Jane Frazer and Mary Fisk. Date were abstracted from published sources through 1976 and include descriptions of over 8,000 core, dredge, and grab samples from the area 15 degrees south to 45 degrees north, 90 degrees to 150 degrees east.
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SPECMAP Archive No. 1
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The SPECMAP Archive No.1 was compiled by Brown University under the direction of A. Duffy and J. Imbrie with the assistance of A.C. Mix and A. Mcintyre, funded by the National Science Foundation. The SPECMAP Archive No.1 Contains climate times series of the past 400,000 years, and basic downcore and core-top data from which these time series were derived for 17 sediment cores from the Atlantic Ocean.
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Seismicity Catalog, 1996
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Parameters from over 4 million earthquakes from 2100 B.C. to 1995 A.D. and more than 200 seismicity catalogs with related seismicity data.
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TerrainBase (Global 5-minute Digital Terrain Model), 1994
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A global land and marine 5-minute Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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US Geological Survey BLM/OCS Baltimore Canyon (Mid-Atlantic) Data Set
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This data set contains analytical data from samples acquired from the Baltimore Canyon (Mid-Atlantic) area of the Outer Continental Shelf, U.S. east coast, by the U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Marine Geology, Woods Hole, Mass., 02543, during the first year of environmental assessment work funded by the Bureau of Land Management (1 July 1975 - 30 June 1976). The data set contains ten files.
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US Geological Survey Ferromanganese Crust Data Set
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The USGS Ferromanganese Crust data set was compiled by F.T. Manheim and C.M. Lane-Bostwick of the US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA. The data set consists of tables corresponding the USGS Open-File Report 89-020 Chemical Composition of Ferromanganese Crusts in the World Ocean: A Review and Comprehensive Database. Data include excerpts from the SIO nodule file, the NGDC marine minerals data base, Japanese sources, a PhD thesis, analyses performed at the Bureau of Mines, and analyses performed at other laboratories under the direction of the USGS. These data are also included on the NOAA & MMS Marine Minerals CD-ROM data set released by NGDC in October of 1992.
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US Naval Research Laboratory NRL/MR-MM/7430-01-8548 North Gulf Littoral Initiative (NGLI)
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Sawyer, William B., Chad Vaughan, Dawn Lavoie, Yoko Furukawa, Nancy Carnaggio, Jennifer Maclean, and Edward Populis, 2001, Northern Gulf Littoral Initiative (NGLI), Geology and Physical Properties of Marine Sediments in the N.E. Gulf of Mexico: Data Report. Report NRL/MR-MM/7430--01-8548, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 12 pages.
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USGS Continental Margin (CONMAR) Sediment File
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The USGS/WHOI Continental Margin (CONMAR) Data set was compiled by the US Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a joint program of study of the Atlantic continental margin of the US. The CONMAR set contains information for 3,715 cores, dredges, and grab samples, and consists of 20 files of grain size analyses/statistical parameters, composition of clay, sand, gravel and carbonate fractions, organic contents, heavy mineral and x-ray analyses, radioactivity counts, and major chemical and trace-element analyses.
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Univ. of Minnesota, Large Lakes Observatory Lake Victoria Cruise V95 Cores Biogenic Silica and Carbon 14 Age Dates
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The Biogenic Silica Data file contains data for 5 cores taken from various sites in Lake Victoria. The data include ship, coring date, water depth, latitude/longitude, sampling device, sampled interval, % biogenic silica, and 14C dates. Cores were sampled at 10 cm intervals for biogenic silica analysis. Samples taken for 14C dating were prepared at the LRC Laboratory and sent to an outside AMS Facility for analysis. Pollen, charcoal, and plant macrofossils were dated.
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WDCA-MGG-1 DSDP V.1-44 Overview, G.R. Heath
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Report MGG-1 draws together and presents, as an organized body of knowledge, an overview of laboratory techniques, methodology, definitions, and assumptions used to derive the sedimentological results presented in Volumes 1-44 of the Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project.
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WDCA-MGG-4 Lithologic Data from Pacific Ocean DSDP Cores
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WDCA-MGG-4 Lithologic Data from Pacific Ocean DSDP Cores - By L.F. Musich, T.A. Davies, P.B. Woodbury, and D.F. Marsee. Prepared by the DSDP staff, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography. 447 pages, softbound.
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Age of the Ocean Floor, Report MGG-12, 1996