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LISSEDDATA: Long Island Sound Surficial Sediment Data

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

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Creative Commons CCZero

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Release Date
15 March 2013
Modified Date
2 September 2014
Update Frequency
notPlanned
Publishers
U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Identifier
lisseddata-long-island-sound-surficial-sediment-data
Landing Page
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/lisseddata-long-island-sound-surficial-sediment-data
Temporal Coverage
1 January 1931 — 1 January 1998

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Description

Many scientific questions and policy issues related to sediments in Long Island Sound require data of historical, regional and interdisciplinary scope. Existent data is often geographically clustered and its references are widely dispersed and not always accessible. Acquisition of new data is expensive and may duplicate previous efforts if a full interpretation of existent data has not occurred. Consequently, the body of existing data needs to be utilized to its maximum so that it can serve as a foundation, baseline, and starting point for further work. An accessible, documented, and simple-to-use compilation of existing data on sediment properties is essential for environmental managers, policy-makers, scientific researchers, and interested members of the public. To this end, we have compiled, edited, and integrated all of the available data on sediment texture and bottom descriptions throughout the Sound in order to produce a regional dataset which will be available to a wide variety of current and potential users. The significant feature of this textural dataset is that it comprehensively contains original data from many heterogeneous sources.

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This dataset has been created by US Government which means it is required to be in the public domain. However US copyright law only allows open access by US citizens, we have assumed the data is equivalently licensed as CC0 for the rest of the world as this is in the spirit of the US Government’s Open Data policy.

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