usSEABED: Coastal & Marine Geology Program

Fields within the usSEABED facies (_FAC) files

Facies are appropriately grouped components mined from word-based data, with values that represent memberships to fuzzy sets, given as percents. Facies fields note presence only, not absence.

More complete information is given in the usSEABED publications. [back]

FACIES GROUPS
Terrigenous
 		 Carbonate
 
Igneous
 		 Volcanic
 
Metamorphic
 		 Mineralized
 
Authigenic Fe Mn
 		 Ooze
 
Carbon
 		 Geochemical signal
 
Foraminifera
 		 Other calcareous pelagics
 
Siliceous pelagics
 		 Shell
 
Coral
 		 Hard plants
 

 

     
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Project coordinators: J.A. Reid and S.J. Williams
Maintained by: Laura Zink Torresan
Last Modified: 28 August 2006 (lzt)