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    "tag": 13311,
    "title": "Sedimentary Environments of the Sea Floor off Eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts (CC_ENVIRON.SHP, Geographic, WGS84)",
    "pubdate": "2006",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2005-1048",
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    "descript": "This data set includes the sedimentary environments for the sea floor offshore of northern and eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  This interpretation is based on data collected with a multibeam sea floor mapping system during USGS survey 98015, conducted November 9 - 25, 1998 and on data collected with a bottom sampling and photographic system during USGS survey 04011, conducted during May and June, 2004.",
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        {
            "name": "Poppe, Lawrence J.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Paskevich, Valerie F.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Butman, Bradford",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Ackerman, Seth D.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Danforth, William W.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Foster, David S.",
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        {
            "name": "Blackwood, Dann S.",
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            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
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            "name": "ocean processes",
            "scope": "Recurrent natural changes that are physical, biological, or chemical, actively affecting the seas and oceans."
        },
        {
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            "name": "scientific interpretation",
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        },
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