Maine Inner Continental Shelf Sediment Data (BARNHARDT shapefile)

Surficial geologic maps play and important role in understanding the present sea floor and the processes that shape it. Between 1984 and 1991, over 1,700 bottom sample stations were occupied in the northwestern Gulf of Maine. Although the data were originally collected for a variety of research projects, contracts, and graduate student theses, they were eventually compiled as part of a Maine Geological Survey and University of Maine program to map the inner continental shelf of this region.

表层地质图（surficial geologic map）对于认知当前海底及其塑造过程具有关键作用。1984年至1991年间，研究团队在缅因湾西北部布设了逾1700个海底采样站位。尽管这批数据最初是为各类研究项目、合同委托工作以及研究生学位论文而采集，但最终被整编为缅因州地质调查局（Maine Geological Survey）与缅因大学（University of Maine）联合开展的该区域内陆架填图项目的组成部分。