U.S. Atlantic Coast and Eastern Region
Internet Map Server sites

The Web Mapping Application is an Adobe Flash application built from a modified version of the ESRI Sample Flex Viewer. Your browser will need the Flash plug-in, available from Adobe. The site was developed for Flash version 9 and later.

• U.S. Atlantic East Coast Region
- This Web Mapping Application site includes data released for the U.S. Atlantic Coast region. Data sets from various U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), Atlantic Coast seafloor mapping surveys have been integrated into the web mapping application. The map includes data layer such as backscatter and sidescan sonar mosaics, bottom photo locations, sediment samples, ship navigation, geologic interpretations etc.
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• USGS Massachusetts Seafloor Mapping Cooperative Web Mapping Application - This mapping site contains published data layers and information from various research initiatives conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The overall project goal is to map the geologic framework of the region inside the 3-mile limit of Massachusetts state waters. The map server highlights include links to seafloor bottom photographs and the attributes of sediment samples acquired from various field activities surrounding the area.
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• Long Bay, South Carolina - This internet mapping site contains data acquired by the USGS, in partnership with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium (SCSGC), along the northern coastal area of South Carolina in Long Bay from Little River Inlet to Winyah Bay. The objectives of the USGS/SCSGC cooperative program were: 1) to provide a regional synthesis of the shallow geologic framework underlying the shoreface and inner continental shelf, and to define its role in coastal evolution and modern beach behavior; 2) to identify and model the physical processes affecting coastal ocean circulation and sediment transport, and to define their role in shaping the modern shoreline; and 3) to identify sediment sources and transport pathways in order to develop a regional sediment budget.
  
  The data presented here were acquired by the USGS during field surveys from 1999-2003 and include side-scan sonar, multibeam bathymetry and grab samples. Interpretive data layers, such as modern sediment thickness, seafloor environments and geology and grain size distribution, that were created in support of the research objectives are also included. The geospatial data presented here accompany USGS Open-File Reports OFR 2004-1013 and OFR 2005-1345, describing the stratigraphic framework and modern sediment distribution within Long Bay.
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• National Assessment of Shoreline Change Web Mapping Application
- A national perspective for the National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project. This Internet Map Server site includes individual data layers compiled in support of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Assessment of Shoreline Change Program. Data layers include short- and long-term shoreline change evaluations, and historical and modern shorelines.
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• U.S. usSEABED <Under Construction>
- This internet mapping site includes data released for the U.S. Atlantic Coast from the usSEABED project.  Data layers include word-based and lab-based analyses of surficial and subbottom sampling. These data have been released via usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Surficial Sediment Data Release (USGS Digital Data Series 118).
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• GLORIA Mapping Program
  - This internet mapping site includes GLORIA (Geologic LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan imagery of the entire deep-water portion (more than 200 meters) of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) mapped during the 8 years of data collection. The images are from each of the geographic areas covered: East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, West Coast, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska, Hawaiian Ridge, Johnston Island, Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. These data have been released via GLORIA Sidescan-Sonar Imagery for Parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and Adjacent Areas (USGS Open File Report 2010-1332).
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The Internet Map Server sites are html and javascript applications built using a modified version of the ESRI IMS Viewer. You will need to enable Active Scripting for your browser for the map viewer to work properly.

• U.S. Atlantic East Coast
- This interactive mapping site includes an index to 21 GLORIA sidescan sonar mosaics collected and processed by the USGS in 1987. Additional data layers contain coastal vulnerability index to future sea-level rise, bottom photographs, surficial samples and sedimentary environment for the entire east coast.
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• U.S. Southeast Atlantic Shoreline Change - This Internet Map Server site includes individual data layers compiled in support of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Assessment of Shoreline Change Program: Part 2, Historical Shoreline Changes And Associated Coastal Land Loss Along The U.S. Southeast Atlantic Coast. Data layers include short- and long-term shoreline change evaluations, and historical and modern shorelines released via The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the U.S. Southest Atlantic Coast (OFR 2005-1326).
  
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• U.S. Atlantic East Coast usSEABED - This Internet Map Server site includes data released for the U.S. Atlantic Coast from the usSEABED project.  Data layers include word-based and lab-based analyses of surficial and subbottom sampling. These data have been released via usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Surficial Sediment Data Release (USGS Digital Data Series 118).
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• Regional Overview - The USGS Gulf of Maine Internet Map Server (IMS) provides an overview of USGS research activities and GIS data compiled from various sources for the Gulf of Maine. Data layers include surficial samples and bathymetry contours.
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• Cape Cod and Massachusetts Bay - This mapping site combines data from a number of individual publications that include high-resolution mapping of the seafloor off of Massachusetts, coastal vulnerability of National Seashore Park, and bedrock cores acquired from recent drilling in western Cape Cod. The mapserver highlights include wellsite information that provides links to the bedrock photograph locations and attribute of cores collected from recent drilling in western Cape Cod, Massachusetts and location and links to seafloor bottom photographs acquired from various field activities surrounding the area. Additional data layers include a geologic interpretation of Cape Cod and the Islands, Town boundaries, village names and roads.
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• New York Bight Inner-Continental Shelf - The USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) undertook reconnaissance mapping of the continental shelf seaward of the New York - New Jersey Metropolitan Area that includes the New York Bight and southern Long Island Coast. The goal of the reconnaissance mapping was to provide a regional synthesis of the sea-floor geology in the New York Bight area, including: (a) a description of sea-floor morphology; (b) a map of sea-floor sedimentary lithotypes; (c) the geometry and structure of the Cretaceous strata and Quaternary deposits; and (d) the geologic history of the region. This map site includes data compiled from USGS Open-File Report 02-152. Data includes surficial samples, sidescan sonar mosaic of the NY Bight area, geologic and seismic interpretations, and ship navigation with links to browse versions of the seismic records.
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• Long Island Sound Estuary - This Internet Map Server site includes data compiled from various digital USGS GIS data publications. Data includes high-resolution sidescan sonar mosaics, multibeam bathymetric data, derived bathymetry contours, core information, links to seismic data profiles and various interpretive GIS data layers.
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• Long Bay, South Carolina - This Internet Map Server site contains data acquired by the USGS, in partnership with the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium (SCSGC), along the northern coastal area of South Carolina in Long Bay from Little River Inlet to Winyah Bay. The objectives of the USGS/SCSGC cooperative program were: 1) to provide a regional synthesis of the shallow geologic framework underlying the shoreface and inner continental shelf, and to define its role in coastal evolution and modern beach behavior; 2) to identify and model the physical processes affecting coastal ocean circulation and sediment transport, and to define their role in shaping the modern shoreline; and 3) to identify sediment sources and transport pathways in order to develop a regional sediment budget.
  
  The data presented here were acquired by the USGS during field surveys from 1999-2003 and include side-scan sonar, multibeam bathymetry and grab samples. Interpretive data layers, such as modern sediment thickness, seafloor environments and geology and grain size distribution, that were created in support of the research objectives are also included. The geospatial data presented here accompany USGS Open-File Reports OFR 2004-1013 and OFR 2005-1345, describing the stratigraphic framework and modern sediment distribution within Long Bay.
  more info | data catalog