Selected Marine Geology Digital Data FilesPlease Cite Original References When Using These Data
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Selected Marine Geology Digital Data FilesPlease Cite Original References When Using These Data
Please see the NGDC privacy, disclaimer, and copyright notices Additional sources of sea floor sediment & rock data on the Internet:
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2002 Sediment Grab Data for Catlett and Goodwin Islands on the York River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia (Ches_2002sedgrabs)
The authors present four companion digital models of the age, age uncertainty, spreading rates and spreading asymmetries of the world's ocean basins as geographic and Mercator grids with 2 minute resolution. The grids include data from all the major ocean...
The LLO operates in conjunction with the Limnological Research Center (LRC) in working towards fulfilling the objectives of the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL) to study the East African Lakes. The Lake Victoria project is funded by...
This data set contains analytical data from samples acquired from the Baltimore Canyon (Mid-Atlantic) area of the Outer Continental Shelf, U.S. east coast, by the U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Marine Geology, Woods Hole, Mass., during the first year o...
The Ecological Investigations of Petroleum Production Platforms in the Central Gulf of Mexico Project was conducted by Texas A and M University under contract to NOAA and the Bureau of Land Management under the BLM/OCS Outer Continental Shelf Program. Gra...
The South Texas Outer Continental Shelf Project (STOCS) conducted by the University of Texas and the USGS with funding from BLM/NOAA.The USGS produced geochemical analyses of sediment and suspended sediment, clay mineralogy, and physical properties of sed...
Data in this file were produced by Science Applications, Inc., prime contractor on the Bureau of Land Management/Outer Continental Shelf - Southern California Studies (BLM/OCS). Data consist of six data files (benthic sediment characteristics, benthic sed...
These data are part of Roberts, Richard W., University of Washington, Department of Oceanography Special Report No. 70, Bottom Sediment Granulometric Data for the Continental Margins of the Bering, Chukchi, East Siberian, Laptev, and Beaufort Seas. The re...
The USGS Ferromanganese Crust data set was compiled by F.T. Manheim
and C.M. Lane-Bostwick of the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA. The data set
consists of tables corresponding the USGS Open-File Report 89-020 "Chemical
Composition o...
The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and
Prediction) Project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the
International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). Collection and analysis of cores
for the 120K bp ...
The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping,
andPrediction) Project was funded by the National Science Foundation aspart of the
International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) Program. The CLIMAP 18k bp sediment
...
The Centre National Pour l'Exploitation des Oceans (CNEXO)
ferromanganese nodule analysis files consist of geochemical data from published
reports pertaining to oceanic ferromanganese deposits, including Russian, since 1891.
Data were compi...
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) operated the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution from 1984-2003 for over 100 cruises worldwide. The ODP is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and several countries through the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for...
The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) operated the D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER from 1968-1983, drilling 1,112 holes at 624 sites worldwide. The DSDP was funded by the US National Science Foundation and several foreign countries through the Joint Oceanographic In...
Counts of primarily planktonic foraminifera from Dr. W.F. Ruddiman and staff at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University are included in these files. Some diatom observations made by Dr. C. Sancetta of LDEO are also included. The data s...
Deck41 is a digital summary of surficial sediment composition for over 35,000 marine samples worldwide.The descriptions were abstracted largely from unpublished laboratory reports and core log sheets contributed to the National Oceanographic Data Center p...
In order to facilitate descriptions of groundfish habitat over a large portion of the EBS shelf, the NMFS/AFSC has assembled a single comprehensive database of the point sample data (EBSSED; n=2,587) from all available sources. The database represents sed...
This data set contains analytical data from samples acquired from the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico area under contract to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during 1978-1979. Individual contractors included researchers from Rice University, Moody Co...
In 1975 the BRGM and CNEXO in France joined to create a national marine geological sampling center at the Centre Oceanologique de Bretagne in Brest. This center collects and stores samples of the sea bottom and subbottom from all over the world and makes ...
These data are part of the Brine Disposal Program funded by NOAA in the US Gulf of Mexico, conducted by R. W. Hann of Texas A and M University. Data in the report represent grain size analyses conducted by TAMU for 230 grabs collected by multiple cruises ...
These grain size data were generated as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP), funded by NOAA. Data were contributed by the University of Alaska, the University of South Carolina, the Scripps Institution of Oceanogr...
Data were gathered by the R/V Marion Dufresne in May and June of 1992 over the Mascarene Ridge in the Indian Ocean on cruise MD72/MASCAFLUX. Heat flow measurements for 96 in-situ readings including both thermal conductivity and thermal gradient were recor...
The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) operated the drilling vessel
JOIDES Resolution from 1984-2003 for over 100 cruises worldwide. The ODP is funded by
the U.S. National Science Foundation and several countries through the Joint
Oceanographic I...
The Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS)
contains inventory and basic lithology, texture, and age information for geologic
samples of sediment and rock from the seafloor and lakebeds archived by approxima...
This file was compiled by the Japan Oceanographic Data Center using the IOC Marine Geological Data Format. It includes 748 master records and 1740 data records. It contains information on unconsolidated sediments and hard rocks from the seafloor, includin...
Carbon-14 data in this file were compiled by W.F. Ruddiman and
staff at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Data include
974 carbon-14 dates from 309 ocean sediment cores, covering the period from 40,000
years bp to...
LDEO Carbonate data were compiled under the direction of A. Esmay and W.F. Ruddiman at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Data include CaCO3 percentages by interval down core for 328 sediments cores, principally from the Atlantic...
The MESA/New York Bight Study was funded by NOAA and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a historical compilation of grain size analyses in the NY Bight from 1957-1979. 5,961 cores, grabs, and dredges are included from multiple cruises: (BCTS, BLM01B-B...
This GIS data layer represents point coverage of seafloor sediment size and composition in Massachusetts territorial waters. The data were created by aggregating available sediment point data collected from the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) usS...
Grain size analyses produced by Robert Reid of the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service for the NOAA/BLM Outer Continental Shelf Mid-Atlantic Project, Baltimore Canyon Trough Area. Grain size analyses were originally contributed in the historic NODC 003...
Geologic data compilations and reports available are from academia, government, and non-U.S. sources. These data may be digital compilations, or have originally been in paper or film form. The following are examples of the types of analyses of sediment or...
The NGDC digital grain size file contains particle size data for over 17,000 seafloor samples worldwide. The file was begun by NGDC in 1976 in response to a need by the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) for a detailed, digi...
From 1983 through 1992, the National Geophysical Data Center compiled a comprehensive, computerized bibliography and geochemical database on offshore marine mineral deposits as a cooperative effort with the Ocean Minerals and Energy Division of the Nation...
The NOAA/NOS and USCGS Bottom Type Descriptions from Hydrographic Surveys database is a compilation of surficial sediment composition from multiple sources for over 200,000 seafloor sediment samples primarily around U.S. coastal areas. The descriptions we...
The Northern Gulf Littoral Initiative (NGLI), Geology and Physical Properties of Marine Sediments in the N.E. gulf of Mexico: Data Report, was produced by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with sponsorship by the Naval Oceanographic Office, in July...
PETROS is a worldwide data bank of major element chemical analyses
of igneous rocks compiled for research and teaching purposes by Dr. Felix Mutschler
and Staff at Eastern Washington University. PETROS version 6.1 includes 37...
Four cores are given: G8, G8B, M21, and M3. For each core, a printable table file (*.PRN) and a spreadsheet (*.WK3) are provided. The file names reflect the sediment core ID. Documentation of techiques and context are provided in the bibliographic referen...
The SEATAR files were compiled by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography with funds from IDOE/NSF, as part of the SIO world sediment data bank, under the direction of Jane Frazer and Mary Fisk. Data were abstracted from published sources through 1976 and...
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography compiled descriptions of sediment samples related to ferromanganese deposits, funded through the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) and Project MAGNOD by the National Science Foundation, as part of the...
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) compiled data on the
geochemistry of marine ferromanganese nodules as part of the International Decade of
Ocean Exploration (IDOE), funded by the National Science Foundation, thro...
The Southwest Florida Shelf Ecosystems Analysis Study produced grain size analyses in the historic 073 format for 299 sea floor samples collected from October 25, 1980 to February 15, 1982 by the Venture during cruises ECO0-3 in the Southwest Florida Cont...
The SPECMAP Archive No.1 was compiled by Brown University under the direction of A. Duffy and J. Imbrie with the assistance of A.C. Mix and A. Mcintyre, and funded by the National Science Foundation. The SPECMAP Archive No.1 contains climate times series ...
The MAFLA (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida) Study was funded by NOAA as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Program. Dr. L.J. Doyle produced grain size analyses in the historic 073 format for 2,168 sea floor samples collected on multiple cruises (MAFLA crui...
The USGS/WHOI Continental Margin (CONMAR) Data set was compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a joint program of study of the Atlantic continental margin of the U.S. The CONMAR set contains information for 3...
Weight percentages of calcium carbonate in this file were compiled by J. Farrell and W. L. Prell of Brown University for 17 equatorial Pacific Ocean sediment cores. Cores are identified by cruise and core id. Depth-in-core information and estimates of sed...