{
    "tag": 19293,
    "title": "Photographs, station locations, video location, and grain-size analyses of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1999",
    "pubdate": "2001",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2000-427",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/open_file_report\/ofr2000-427\/ofr2000-427_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "This CD-ROM contains photographs and sediment sample analyses of the sea floor obtained at 142 sites in western Massachusetts Bay during a research cruise (USGS cruise ISBL99024) aboard the Fishing Vessel (FV) Isabel S. conducted July 18-21, 1999. Collection of these photographs and samples was undertaken in support of a large project whose overall objective is to map and describe the sea floor of Massachusetts Bay.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Gutierrez, Benjamin T.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Butman, Bradford",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Blackwood, Dann S.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2067",
            "name": "grab sampling",
            "scope": "Use of a mechanical device to seize a volume of unconsolidated surficial material for study.  This term applies when the device used is specifically crafted for grab sampling."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "493",
            "name": "grain-size analysis",
            "scope": "Method of studying soils, sediments, sands, or rock by determining the size, distribution, and proportion of selected particles."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "575",
            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
        {
            "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": 2,
            "code": "1201",
            "name": "underwater photography",
            "scope": "Photographs taken below the water surface, usually in marine, lacustrine, and estuarine environments.  Subjects are typically benthic organisms and sedimentary structures on the bottom."
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
    ],
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    "image": [],
    "fan": []
}