Surficial sediment data from Boston Harbor collected during USGS Field Activity 04019 (SEDGRABS, UTM 19, WGS84)

Description

This data set includes the locations, identifiers, grain-size data and(or) textural descriptions of surficial sediments collected at stations based on topographic and backscatter data of the seafloor in Boston Harbor and the harbor appraoches, Massachusetts. The sediments were collected with a modified Van Veen grab (mini-SEABOSS) during USGS survey 04019, conducted September 14-17, 2004.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1008/gis/OFR_2006_1008/shapes/
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.a6b96c3a-6108-4887-bf1a-b476896a8a90.xml

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  • environment
  • location
  • sand
  • sea-floor
  • massachusetts-office-of-coastal-zone-management
  • noaa-ship-whiting
  • boston-harbor-islands
  • oceans
  • national-ocean-service
  • stations
  • atlantic-ocean
  • hydrographic-survey
  • gravel
  • whsc
  • navigational-data
  • noaa
  • field-activity-number-04019
  • usgs-a6b96c3a-6108-4887-bf1a-b476896a8a90
  • small-seaboss-sampler
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • sediment-data
  • rv-rafael
  • hull
  • national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration
  • geospatial-datasets
  • geoscientificinformation
  • silt
  • surficial-sediment-classification
  • sediment-samples
  • van-veen-grab-sampler
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • nahant
  • arcview-shapefile
  • ground-truth
  • sediments
  • czm
  • usgs
  • woods-hole-science-center
  • clay
  • sea-floor-characteristics
  • hubline
  • boston-harbor
  • massachusetts-bay
  • marine-geology
  • grain-size-analysis
  • boston
  • nos

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