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    "title": "Nahant to Gloucester, Massachusetts Maximum Likelihood Bottom Classification (mlclass5)",
    "pubdate": "2005",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2005-1293",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/open_file_report\/ofr2005-1293\/mlclass5_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "These data are high-resolution maximum likelihood classification of the seafloor offshore of Massachusetts, from Nahant to Gloucester.  Approximately 127 km\u00b2  of the inner shelf were mapped in the nearshore region between the 10m and  40-m isobath.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Andrews, Brian D.",
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        {
            "name": "Barnhardt, Walter A.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Butman, Bradford",
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        },
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        },
        {
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            "name": "sea-floor characteristics",
            "scope": "Geomorphic features and geographic, compositional, and textural variation in the materials composing the ocean floor. Includes both large-scale structures (such as seamounts and rises) and fine-scale variations in rocks and deposits on the sea floor."
        },
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        },
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