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    "tag": 17181,
    "title": "Acquisition log maintained during field activity 2012-035-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management in Ipswich Bay and Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, in August 2012 (Excel spreadsheet)",
    "pubdate": "2018",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P924M8R1",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/field_activities\/2012_035_fa\/2012-035-FA_logbook_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human effects. Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of the Geologic Mapping of the Massachusetts Sea Floor program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. The program is focused on the inshore waters (primarily 5-30 meters deep, although the region surveyed in this field activity includes waters up to 90 meters deep) of Massachusetts. This dataset, collected aboard the Ocean Survey Vessel (OSV) Bold as part of the Geologic Mapping of the Massachusetts Sea Floor Program, is from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sampling survey 2012-035-FA (August 21-27, 2012) by the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management with partners from the Massachusetts Bays Program, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During the survey, surficial sediment samples and bottom still and video imagery were collected in Ipswich Bay and Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Huntley, Emily C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ackerman, Seth D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Boeri, Robert L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Callaghan, Todd P.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sampson, Daniel W.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Blackwood, Dann S.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2077",
            "name": "field activity logs",
            "scope": "Operational records for observation, inventory, sampling, or monitoring activities."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "706",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology concerned with the composition, geologic history, and earth processes of the ocean floor and the continental margin."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "111",
            "name": "bay",
            "scope": "a recess in the shoreline, typically bounded by capes or headlands."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "123",
            "name": "continental shelf",
            "scope": "the gently sloping sea floor between the coast and the continental slope."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "719",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "used for geological and related studies of ocean basins and margins."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "476",
            "name": "photographic sampling",
            "scope": "photographic documentation of objects or features such as the sea floor, often collected systematically along a trackline to \"ground truth\" co-located data."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "308",
            "name": "sedimentary environments",
            "scope": "the behavior and properties of sediment as they relate to natural environments."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "484",
            "name": "video observation",
            "scope": "video documentation of natural features and processes."
        }
    ],
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    "image": [],
    "fan": []
}