Sediments of Narragansett Bay acquired in 1960 (MCMASTER60 shapefile)

Description

Gravel, sand, silt, and clay contents were determined for samples from Narragansett Bay and the adjacent Rhode Island Shelf. In the Narragansett Bay system, clayey silt and sand-silt-clay are the most abundant sediments. Sand is abundant locally and on the inner shelf. In general, toward the lower passages of the Bay the sediments show a progressive change to coarser textures.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.644d04d3-07c5-4fd2-8f42-6dd9271f6d84.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-001/htmldocs/data.htm

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  • surficial-classification
  • location
  • sand
  • greenwich-bay
  • u-s-east-coast
  • national-assessment-of-marine-sand-and-gravel-resources
  • oceans
  • providence-ri
  • new-england
  • atlantic-ocean
  • usgs-644d04d3-07c5-4fd2-8f42-6dd9271f6d84
  • mount-hope-bay
  • gravel
  • point-shapefile
  • whsc
  • navigational-data
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • geospatial-datasets
  • sediment-classification
  • geoscientificinformation
  • silt
  • sediment
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • points
  • geographic-information-system
  • open-file-report-03-001
  • narragansett-bay
  • gis
  • usgs
  • woods-hole-science-center
  • clay
  • sea-floor-characteristics
  • rhode-island
  • texture
  • marine-geology
  • grain-size-analysis

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