Datasets / BPHOTOS: location of bottom photographs taken along the U.S. Atlantic East Coast as part of the Continental Margin Program (1963-1968)

BPHOTOS: location of bottom photographs taken along the U.S. Atlantic East Coast as part of the Continental Margin Program (1963-1968)

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Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

In 1962, Congress authorized the Continental Margin Program, a joint program between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to conduct a geological reconnaissance investigation of the continental shelf and slope off the Atlantic coast of the United States. As part of this program 464 photographs were collected at 378 stations from the Canadian border to the southern tip of Florida. Bottom photography was conducted at many of these stations in conjunction with sediment sampling for grain size, mineralogy, geochemistry, and biology. Those photographs have been scanned and are archived here to release a digital version of the historical dataset.

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