U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 146


usSEABED: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, version 1.0 Skip navigational side bar

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Abstract
Contents
Introduction
   - Future Plans, Updates and Online Usage in a GIS
   - Applications
           o Marine Aggregates Resources and Processes
           o National Benthic Habitats Studies
usSEABED (data)
   - How usSEABED is Built
   - Sources of Data
   - Data Themes and Output Files
           o Output Files
           o Relational Keys
           o Source Data
           o Textural and other basic information
           o Extracted data (EXT)
           o Parsed data (PRS)
           o Calculated data (CLC)
           o Component/feature and facies data (CMP, FAC)
           o Relationship between the PRS and CMP outputs

   - Quality Control
   - Spatial and Temporal Uncertainties
dbSEABED (processing)
   - Introduction
   - Data Import Methods
   - The Numeric Data Type
   - The Linguistic Data Type
           o Calibrations
           o Parsing Description

   - Expansion of Data Coverage
           o Summary of the onCALCULATION methods used in dbSEABED
Data Catalog
   - Data Files
           o Sources
           o usSEABED Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean Data
           o Base Map Layers
           o Legends
                 -- Color
                 -- Roughness
                 -- ArcView Legends
References Cited
Contacts
Acknowledgments
Frequently Asked Questions

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