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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
3,715 cores, dredges, and grab samples, and consists of 18 files of grain size analyses/statistical
parameters, composition of clay, sand, gravel and carbonate fractions, organic contents,
heavy mineral and x-ray analyses, radioactivity counts, and major chemical and trace-element
analyses. An accompanying technical report contains a complete description of methodology
and file organization: Hathaway, John C., 1971, Data File, Continental Margin Program,
Atlantic Coast of the United States: WHOI Reference No. 71-15. Updated data files
were received in digital form in 1977. Data collection was partially funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CONMAR program and the International Decade
of Ocean Exploration. These data were also included as ASCII files on the NOAA and
MMS Marine Minerals CDROM data set released by NGDC in 1992. The U.S. Geological Survey
has incorporated these data into an updated data set available from their web site,
and the original technical report is available from WHOI. |