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USGS CMG InfoBank format for Sediment thickness data


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Data Formats:	ARC coverage E00 FGDC metadata gridded/image imaging material scattered/swath Shapefile vector/polygon

File Name /infobank/<letter>/<activityid>/bath/<activity-id>.340

Style time/data style, multi-record, in caps, without tabs

Mnemonic
(Year, Day, Hour, Min, Sec, Tenths, Num(Values))

Fortran format
(i4.4, i3.3, 3i2.2, i1.1, t16, <Num>(f9.3))

C format
(%4.4i%3.3i3%2.2i%1.1i <Num>%9.3f\\n)

Purpose temporal data

Derivative earlier data set

Example

1 2 3 4 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890

19792870556340 0.272 19792870603040 0.267 19792870605090 0.270 19792870608440 0.268 19792870610130 0.266

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