Seafloor or Short Core Hydrate Locations in the Gulf of Mexico (HYDRATES.SHP)

This GIS overlay is a component of the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center's, Gulf of Mexico ArcView GIS database. The Gulf of Mexico GIS database is intended to organize and display USGS held data and provide on-line (WWW) access to the data and/or metadata. Additional GIS overlays downloaded from the WWW, such as the one described here, are also included in the Gulf of Mexico ArcView GIS database. Attempts to properly attribute such GIS overlays with the WWW address and data compilers has been made.

本地理信息系统（Geographic Information System, GIS）叠加图层为美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）伍兹霍尔野外中心所辖墨西哥湾ArcView GIS数据库的组成部分。该墨西哥湾GIS数据库旨在整理并展示美国地质调查局所持有的各类数据，并通过万维网（WWW）为用户提供数据及/或元数据（metadata）的在线访问渠道。此外，本数据库亦收录从万维网下载的其他GIS叠加图层，包括本文所述的这一图层。目前已针对此类GIS叠加图层，完成其万维网来源地址及数据编译方的规范标注工作。