Description
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.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Data | XML | Landing page for access to the data | Open resource |
| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original format | Open resource |
Tags
- arcview-shapefile
- cmgp
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- geographic-information-system
- geoscientificinformation
- geospatial-datasets
- gis
- grain-size-analysis
- kurtosis
- location
- marine-geology
- massachusetts
- mean
- merrimack-embayment
- navigational-data
- new-england
- oceans
- open-file-report-03-001
- points
- sea-floor-characteristics
- sediment-classification
- sediments
- shelf
- skewness
- standard-deviation
- statistical-parameters
- surficial-classification
- texture
- u-s-east-coast
- u-s-geological-survey
- usgs
- usgs-8e843340-7c0f-47b1-a647-aac39ad5e6d9
- woods-hole-field-center