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What does this data set describe?

1. How should this data set be cited?

   U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov/>, Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) <http://marine.usgs.gov/>, 20130331, Geological data of field activity G-76-80-FL in Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 10/00/1980 to 12/00/1980: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov>, Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov>, Menlo Park, CA.

   Online Links:

   • <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/gos/g-76-80-fl.fmeta.xml>
   • <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/g/g7680fl/html/g-76-80-fl.meta.html>

2. What geographic area does the data set cover?

   West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.75000

   East_Bounding_Coordinate: -78.25000

   North_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.75000

   South_Bounding_Coordinate: 23.25000

3. What does it look like?

4. Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?

   Beginning_Date: Oct-1980

   Ending_Date: Dec-1980

   Currentness_Reference: ground condition

5. What is the general form of this data set?

6. How does the data set represent geographic features?
   1. How are geographic features stored in the data set?

      Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

      This is a Point data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
      • Point

   2. What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?

      Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.00001. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.00001. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.

      The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1927.
      The ellipsoid used is Clarke 1866.
      The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378206.4.
      The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/294.98.
      

      Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

      Depth_System_Definition:

      Depth_Datum_Name: Local surface

      Depth_Resolution: 0.1

      Depth_Distance_Units: meters

      Depth_Encoding_Method: Attribute values

      
      
      

7. How does the data set describe geographic features?

   Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

   Navigation with Time Stamp <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/definition/nav.html>

Who produced the data set?

1. Who are the originators of the data set? (may include formal authors, digital compilers, and editors)
   • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov/>, Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) <http://marine.usgs.gov/>

2. Who also contributed to the data set?

3. To whom should users address questions about the data?
   U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov>, Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov>
   Attn: Clint Steele <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/csteele.html>
   InfoBank Group Leader <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/csteele.html>
   USGS, MailStop 999, 345 Middlefield Road
   Menlo Park, CA 94025-3561
   USA
   

   (650) 329-5055 (voice)
   (650) 329-5190 (FAX)
   infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov <mailto:infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov>
   

Why was the data set created?

These data and information are intended for science researchers, students from elementary through college, policy makers, and general public.

How was the data set created?

1. From what previous works were the data drawn?

2. How were the data generated, processed, and modified?

   Date: 13-Jan-2011 (process 1 of 1)

   Navigation Data Unknown

   Person who carried out this activity:
   

   U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov>, Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov>
   Attn: Clint Steele <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/csteele.html>
   InfoBank Group Leader <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/csteele.html>
   USGS, MailStop 999, 345 Middlefield Road
   Menlo Park, CA 94025-3561
   USA
   

   (650) 329-5055 (voice)
   (650) 329-5190 (FAX)
   infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov <mailto:infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov>
   

3. What similar or related data should the user be aware of?

   U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov>, Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov>, Unknown, USGS/CMG Information Bank <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/>: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov> Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov>, Menlo Park, CA.

   Online Links:

   • <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/>

   Other_Citation_Details:

   Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah Marie, Habib, Dan, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly M., Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James, Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., Shipley, Thomas H., Wells, Larry, Bowdler, Jay L., Cotillon, Pierre H., Halley, Robert B., Kinoshita, Hajimu, Patton, James W., Pisciotto, Kenneth A., Premoli-Silva, Isabella, Testarmata, Margaret M., Tyson, Richard V., and Watkins, David K., 1982, Early history of the Atlantic Ocean and gas hydrates on the Blake Outer Ridge; results of the Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, no. 9, p. 876-885. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., Shipley, Thomas H., Bowdler, Jay L., Cotillon, Pierre H., Halley, Robert B., Kinoshita, Hajimu, Patton, James W., Pisciotto, Kenneth A., Premoli-Silva, Isabella, Testarmata, Margaret M., and Watkins, David K., 1983, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed.: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, 947 p. Gradstein, Felix M., and Sheridan, Robert E., 1983, Introduction, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 5-18. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Explanatory notes, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 19-33 Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Site 533; Blake Outer Ridge, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 35-140. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Site 534; Blake-Bahama Basin, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 141-340. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Magnetic, bathymetric, seismic reflection, and positioning data collected underway on Glomar Challenger, Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 341-349. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Gas hydrates of the Blake Outer Ridge, Site 533, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October- December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 353-365. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Pressure core barrel; application to the study of gas hydrates, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 533, Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 367-375. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Molecular and isotopic compositions of hydrocarbons at Site 533, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 377-389. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Anoxic diagenesis and methane generation in sediments of the Blake Outer Ridge, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 533, Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 391-402. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Concentrations and carbon isotopic compositions of CH (sub 4) and CO (sub 2) in gas from sediments of the Blake Outer Ridge, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 403-411. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Mineralogy and geochemistry of carbonate diagenesis of the Pliocene and Pleistocene hemipelagic mud on the Blake Outer Ridge, Suite 533, Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 411-427. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Geochemistry and mineralogy of selected carbonaceous claystones in the Lower Cretaceous from the Blake-Bahama Basin, North Atlantic, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 429-436. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Clay mineralogical and inorganic geochemical stratigraphy of Blake-Bahama Basin since the Callovian, Site 534, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 437-451. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Chemical and isotopic composition of interstitial water from Deep Sea Drilling Project sites 533 and 534, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 453-461. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Organic geochemical character of some Deep Sea Drilling Project cores from legs 76 and 44, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 463-468. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Organic facies of Cretaceous and Jurassic sediments from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534 in the Blake-Bahama Basin, western North Atlantic, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 469-480. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Organic geochemistry in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic formations on Site 534, Leg 76, Blake-Bahama Basin, and comparison with Site 391, Leg 44, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 481-493. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Benthic foraminifers of Site 533, Leg 76 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project; faunal variations during the Pliocene and Pleistocene on the Blake Outer Ridge (western North Atlantic), in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 497-509. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Upper Neogene and Quaternary planktonic foraminifers from the Blake Outer Ridge and Blake-Bahama Basin (western North Atlantic), Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, sites 533 and 534, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 511-535. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Jurassic abyssal foraminifera in the Blake-Bahama Basin, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 537-559. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Calpionellids and the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534, western North Atlantic Ocean, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 561-567. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Summary of Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of Site 534 (Blake-Bahama Basin) and correlation to Tethyan sections, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 569-571. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Jurassic calcareous nannofossil zonation, an overview with new evidence from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 573-579. Sheridan, Robert E., Gradstein, Felix M., Barnard, Leo A., Bliefnick, Deborah M., Habib, Daniel, Jenden, Peter D., Kagami, Hideo, Keenan, Everly, Kostecki, John, Kvenvolden, Keith A., Moullade, Michel, Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., Roth, Peter H., and Shipley, Thomas H., 1983, Jurassic ostracodes of Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, Hole 534A, Blake-Bahama Basin, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 581-586. Roth, Peter H., 1983, Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils in the western North Atlantic (Site 534); biostratigraphy, preservation, and some observations on biogeography and paleoceanography, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 587-621. Habib, Daniel, and Drugg, Warren S., 1983, Dinoflagellate age of Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sediments in the Blake-Bahama Basin, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 623-638. Renz, Otto, 1983, Early Cretaceous Cephalopoda from the Blake-Bahama Basin (Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, Hole 534A) and their correlation in the Atlantic and southwestern Tethys, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 639-644. Butterlin, Jacques, and Moullade, Michel, 1983, Redeposited and/or reworked larger benthic foraminifera from Miocene debris flows, Blake-Bahama Basin flows, Blake-Bahama Basin (western North Atlantic), Deep Sea Drilling Project legs 44 (Site 391) and 76 (Site 534), in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 645-650. Shipley, Thomas H,. 1983, Physical properties, synthetic seismograms, and seismic reflections; correlations at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534, Blake-Bahama Basin, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 653-666. Sheridan, Robert E., Bates, L.G., Shipley, Thomas H., and Crosby, J.T., 1983, Seismic stratigraphy in the Blake-Bahama Basin and the origin of Horizon D, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 667-683. Ogg, James G., 1983, Magnetostratigraphy of Upper Jurassic and lowest Cretaceous sediments, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534, western North Atlantic, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 685-697. Testarmata, Margaret M., and Gose, Wulf A., 1983, The susceptibility and time- dependent magnetization of basalts from Deep Sea Drilling Project Hole 534A, Blake Plateau, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 699-703. Steiner, Maureen B., 1983, Paleomagnetism of Middle Jurassic basalts, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 705-711. Logothetis, John, 1983, Petrography, mineralogy, and geochemistry of basalts from Hole 534A, Leg 76,in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 713-717. Henderson, Jeremy, and Davis, Earl, 1983, An estimate of the heat flow in the western North Atlantic at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 719-724. Bliefnick, Deborah M., Robertson, Alastair H.F., and Sheridan, Robert E., 1983, Deposition and provenance of Miocene intraclastic chalks, Blake-Bahama Basin, western North Atlantic, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 727-748. van Buren, H. Mark, and Mullins, Henry T., 1983, Seismic stratigraphy and geological development of an open-ocean carbonate slope; the northern margin of Little Bahama Bank, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 749-762. Robertson, Alastair H.F., 1983, Latest Cretaceous and Eocene paleoenvironments in the Blake-Bahama Basin, western North Atlantic, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 763-780. Habib, Daniel, 1983, Sedimentation-rate-dependent distribution of organic matter in the North Atlantic Jurassic-Cretaceous, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 781-794. Robertson, Alastair H.F., and Bliefnick, Deborah M., 1983, Sedimentology and origin of Lower Cretaceous pelagic carbonates and redeposited clastics, Blake-Bahama Formation, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 534, western Equatorial Atlantic, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 795-828. Ogg, James G., Robertson, Alastair H.F., and Jansa, Lubomir F., 1983, Jurassic sedimentation history of Site 534 (western North Atlantic) and of the Atlantic-Tethys Seaway, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 829-884 Lemoine, Marcel, 1983, Rifting and early drifting; Mesozoic Central Atlantic and Ligurian Tethys, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 885-895. Sheridan, Robert E., 1983, Phenomena of pulsation tectonics related to the breakup of the eastern North American continental margin, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 897-909. Gradstein, Felix M., and Sheridan, Robert E., 1983, On the Jurassic Atlantic Ocean and a synthesis of results of Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 76, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 76 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Norfolk, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October-December, 1980: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 76, p. 913-943. Kvenvolden, K.A., and Barnard, L.A., and Cameron, D.H., 1981, Recovery by pressure-core barrel of natural gas hydrates from the Blake Outer Ridge, in American Geophysical Union 1981 spring meeting: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 62, no. 17, p. 303. Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 76: <A HREF="<http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/76/leg76.htm>"><http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/76/leg76.htm>
   
   
   

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1. How well have the observations been checked?

   Identified as best available version.

2. How accurate are the geographic locations?

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3. How accurate are the heights or depths?

   Unspecified

4. Where are the gaps in the data? What is missing?

   Start and end date/times of data

   Navigation Data (g-76-80-fl.050 [SINS])
   YYYYMMDDHHMMSST    YYYYMMDDHHMMSST
   198001010101000    198001050101000
   YYYYMMDDHHMMSST    YYYYMMDDHHMMSST
   

5. How consistent are the relationships among the observations, including topology?

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   Physical materials are under controlled on-site access.
   Some USGS information accessed through this means may be preliminary in nature and presented without the approval of the Director of the USGS. This information is provided with the understanding that it is not guaranteed to be correct or complete and conclusions drawn from such information are the responsibility of the user.
   This information is not intended for navigational purposes.
   Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
   

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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) <http://www.usgs.gov>, Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov>
Attn: Clint Steele <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/csteele.html>
InfoBank Group Leader <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/staff/csteele.html>
USGS, MailStop 999, 345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3561
USA

(650) 329-5055 (voice)
(650) 329-5190 (FAX)
infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov <mailto:infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov>

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