Available Data
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Publications and Information
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Sediment Data - usSEABED Atlantic Coast Data Release 1.0, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 118
This publication is the first release of the Atlantic coast data from the usSEABED database. The report contains a compilation of published and unpublished sediment texture and other geologic data about the seafloor from diverse sources. usSEABED is an innovative database system developed to bring assorted data together in a unified database. The dbSEABED system is used to process the data. Examples of maps displaying attributes such as grain size and sediment color are included. This database contains information that is the scientific foundation for the USGS Marine Aggregate Resources and Processes Assessment and Benthic Habitats projects and will be useful to the marine science community for other studies of the Atlantic coast continental margin. |
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Sediment Data - usSEABED Gulf of Mexico Data Release 1.0, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 146
This publication is the first release of the Gulf of Mexico coast data from the usSEABED database. The report contains a compilation of published and unpublished sediment texture and other geologic data about the seafloor from diverse sources. usSEABED is an innovative database system developed to bring assorted data together in a unified database. The dbSEABED system is used to process the data. Examples of maps displaying attributes such as grain size and sediment color are included. This database contains information that is the scientific foundation for the USGS Marine Aggregate Resources and Processes Assessment and Benthic Habitats projects and will be useful to the marine science community for other studies of the Gulf of Mexico coast continental margin. |
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Sediment Data - usSEABED Pacific Data Release 1.0, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 182
Data Series 182, This publication is the first release of the Pacific coast data from the usSEABED database. The report contains a compilation of published and unpublished sediment texture and other geologic data about the sea floor from diverse sources. usSEABED is an innovative database system developed to unify assorted data, with the data processed by the dbSEABED system. Examples of maps displaying attributes such as grain size and sediment color are included. This database contains information that is a scientific foundation for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Sea floor Mapping and Benthic Habitats project and the Marine Aggregate Resources and Processes assessment project, and will be useful to the marine science community for other studies of the Pacific coast continental margin. |
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GIS Compilation - New York and New Jersey Offshore Sediment Character, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1046
This Report is based on data contained in DS-118 (Reid and others, 2005) and shows an assortment of example GIS products that are possible using usSEABED. All data are intended to be GIS-ready and the data should not require any additional cleanup, formatting, or renaming of fields in order to use the data in a Geographic Information System. This project employs the Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcView? software. Many of these maps were made as part of the ongoing USGS study to assess marine aggregate resources offshore New York and New Jersey, but these maps can serve many other purposes. The marine science community, educators, students and others are encouraged to use these data to generate GIS products for their own purposes. |
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GIS Compilation - Louisiana Offshore Sediment Character,U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1195
This Report is based on data contained in DS-146 (Buczkowski and others, 2006) and shows an assortment of example GIS products that are possible using usSEABED. All data are intended to be GIS-ready and the data should not require any additional cleanup, formatting, or renaming of fields in order to use the data in a Geographic Information System. This project employs the Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcView? software. Many of these maps were made as part of the ongoing USGS study to assess marine aggregate resources offshore Louisiana, but these maps can serve many other purposes. The marine science community, educators, students and others are encouraged to use these data to generate GIS products for their own purposes.
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A bibliography of selected references to U.S. marine sand and gravel resources, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-300
This report is a bibliography of scientific literature relating to marine sand and gravel. It also includes pertinent papers on beach nourishment using offshore sand sources, the distribution and evolutionary history of marine sand bodies, and a few papers on sand and gravel and marine sand bodies in other countries that have application to the U.S. |
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New digital geologic maps of U.S. Continental Margins; insights to seafloor sedimentary character, aggregate resources and processes, International Conference on Coastal Sediments 2003, Clearwater Beach, FL, 18 - 23 May 2003. (PDF format, 1.8 MB) |
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dbSEABED: an information processing system for Marine Substrates |
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usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release,U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 2005-118, version 1.0 |
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New Digital Geoscience Maps of U.S. Continental Margins: Insights to Seafloor Sedimentary Character, Aggregate Resources and Processes, Coastal Sediments '03 Conference Proceedings, Fifth International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes May 2003 |
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usSEABED continues to expand coverage and usage for mapping seabed characteristics - Coastal and Marine Geology's Soundwaves Monthly Newsletter, Jane Reid and Jeff Williams, August 2002 |
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Chris Jenkins presents new seabed technology - Coastal and Marine Geology's Soundwaves Monthly Newsletter, Jeff Williams and Jamey Currence (Reid), March 2002 |
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Characterization of Sedimentary Deposits Using usSEABED for Large-scale Mapping, Modeling and Research of U.S.Continental Margins - EOS Trans. AGU 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract, Williams, S J, Reid, J A, Arsenault, M A, and Jenkins, C, 2006 |
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