Sediment Thickness Data in the Deep-Sea Basins of the Bering Sea
October 29, 2024
A raster grid of sediment thickness in GeoTIFF format (BeringSeaBasins-SedimentThicknessGrid.tif) of the Aleutian, Bowers, and Komandorsky Basins was created by merging GeoTIFF grids of the Aleutian and Bowers Basins and of the Komandorsky Basin, provided in other sections of this data release. The raster grid file, along with a corresponding CSDGM FGDC-compliant metadata file, is provided in a zip archive file.
Citation Information
Publication Year | 2024 |
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Title | Sediment Thickness Data in the Deep-Sea Basins of the Bering Sea |
DOI | 10.5066/P14SSMQF |
Authors | Daniel S Scheirer, Ginger Barth, Ray W Sliter, Florence L Wong |
Product Type | Data Release |
Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
USGS Organization | Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center |
Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |
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