Maryland Coastal Bays Sediment Mapping Project: Surficial Sediment

Description

This data set contains location, textural, and chemical parameters for 988 surficial sediment samples collected in Maryland's Coastal Bays. The location parameters include UTM zone 18 North coordinates, as well as Maryland State Plane Grid (in meters), and latitude and longitude for sediment sample locations. Textural parameters include percent by weight of water, sand, silt, clay and gravel size components. Chemical parameters include total nitrogen, total carbon, organic carbon, reactive carbon, total phosphorus, and total sulfur contents and concentrations for nine metals: cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, and zinc.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 Legacy holding from Data Store: mcb_surface_sediment.zip https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/373498?Reference=1047851
55 Original FGDC metadata used to create this reference. Be aware that some of the fields, including file paths, may be out of date. This file should only be used for understanding additional documentation that is not already managed by Data Store https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/536676?Reference=1047851

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  • assateague-island-national-seashore
  • chincoteague-bay
  • assawoman-bay
  • grain-size
  • usa-east-coast
  • sinepuxent-bay
  • holocene
  • geology
  • chemistry
  • surficial-sediments
  • nitrogen
  • metals
  • geoscientificinformation
  • isle-of-wight-bay
  • water-quality
  • maryland
  • newport-bay
  • coastal-dynamics
  • asis
  • fenwick-island
  • worcester-county
  • carbon
  • sulfur
  • phosphorous
  • beach-dynamics
  • estuaries
  • sedimentation
  • organic-carbon

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