Archive of Water Gun Subbottom Data Collected During USGS Cruise SEAX 95007 New York Bight, 7-25 May, 1995

This DVD-ROM contains copies of the navigation and field water gun
subbottom data collected aboard the R/V Seaward Explorer, from 7-25 May,
1995. The coverage is in the New York Bight area. This DVD-ROM (Digital
Versatile Disc-Read Only Memory) has been produced in accordance with the
UDF (Universal Disc Format) DVD-ROM Standard (ISO 9660 equivalent) and is
therefore capable of being read on any computing platform that has
appropriate DVD-ROM driver software installed. Access to the data and
information contained on this DVD-ROM was developed using the HyperText
Markup Language (HTML) utilized by the World Wide Web (WWW) project.
Development of the DVD-ROM documentation and user interface in HTML allows
a user to access the information by using a variety of WWW information
browsers (i.e. NCSA Mosaic, Netscape) to facilitate browsing and locating
information and data. To access the information contained on this disk
with a WWW client browser, open the file'index.htm' at the top level
directory of this DVD-ROM with your selected browser. The HTML documentation is written utilizing some HTML 4.0 enhancements. The disk
should be viewable by all WWW browsers but may not properly format on some
older WWW browsers. Also, some links to USGS collaborators and other
agencies are available on this DVD-ROM. These links are only accessible if
access to the Internet is available during browsing of the DVD-ROM.
The archived water gun subbottom data are in standard Society of
Exploration Geologists (SEG) SEG-Y format (Barry and others, 1975) and may
be downloaded for processing with software such as Seismic Unix or
SIOSEIS. DOS and Microsoft Windows compatible software for plotting SEG-Y
files (PLOTSEIS) and viewing SEG-Y headers (DUMPSEGY) is located in the
PLOTSEIS directory. Processed water gun profiles (GIF images) may be
viewed on this DVD-ROM with your WWW browser.