Depth to Quaternary regional unconformities offshore of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters

Geologic structure and isopach maps were constructed by interpreting over 19,890 trackline kilometers of co-located multichannel boomer, sparker and chirp seismic reflection profiles from the continental shelf of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters. In this region, Brothers and others (2020) interpret 12 seismic units and 11 regional unconformities. They interpret the infilled channels as Late Tertiary and Quaternary courses of the Susquehanna, Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James Rivers and tributaries, in addition to a broad drainage system. These regional unconformities form a composite unconformity interpreted as the Quaternary-Tertiary (Q-T) unconformity. A depth to Tertiary...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: 32-bit GeoTIFF, Applied Acoustics S-Boom Source, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMHRP, Chesapeake Bay, Chincoteague Bay, Chincoteague Bight, Chincoteague Inlet, Chincoteague Island, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cobb Island, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, Fisherman Island, Geologic Framework, Geometrics 16-channel Geoeel Streamer, Hog Island, Holocene, Holocene, Interpretation, James River, Marine Geology, Maryland, Maryland Energy Administration, Maryland Wind Energy Area, Myrtle Island, Parramore Island, Persimmons Point, Pleistocene, Potomac River, Quaternary, Rappahannock River, Sea floor, Seismic Interpretation, Seismic-reflection Profiles, Ship Shoal Island, Smith Island, Susquehanna River, Tertiary, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Unconformity, Virginia, WHCMSC, Wallops Island, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Wreck Island, geologic contacts, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, oceans, scientific interpretation, Fewer tags

Flow and geochemistry of groundwater beneath a back-barrier lagoon: The subterranean estuary at Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, USA

To better understand large-scale interactions between fresh and saline groundwater beneath an Atlantic coastal estuary, an offshore drilling and sampling study was performed in a large barrier-bounded lagoon, Chincoteague Bay, Maryland, USA. Groundwater that was significantly fresher than overlying bay water was found in shallow plumes up to 8 m thick extending more than 1700 m offshore. Groundwater saltier than bay surface water was found locally beneath the lagoon and the barrier island, indicating recharge by saline water concentrated by evaporation prior to infiltration. Steep salinity and nutrient gradients occur within a few meters of the sediment surface in most locations studied, with buried peats and estuarine...

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MODFLOW-NWT model with SWI2 used to evaluate the water-table response to sea-level rise and change in recharge, Assateague Island, Maryland and Virginia

A three-dimensional groundwater flow model, MODFLOW-NWT with the SWI2 module, was developed to provide a better understanding of the fresh groundwater system of Assateague Island, Maryland and Virginia. Groundwater flow on Assateague Island was simulated to evaluate the effects of sea-level rise and changes in recharge on the depth to freshwater below the land surface, changes in freshwater discharge, and the depth of the freshwater/saltwater interface. The model was calibrated to average 2014-15 hydrologic conditions and vegetation. The model also simulated the movement of the freshwater- seawater interface for three sea-level rise scenarios.This USGS data release contains all of the input and output files for...

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Conceptual marsh units for Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay, Maryland and Virginia

The salt marsh complex of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) and Chincoteague Bay was delineated to smaller, conceptual marsh units by geoprocessing of surface elevation data. Flow accumulation based on the relative elevation of each location is used to determine the ridge lines that separate each marsh unit while the surface slope is used to automatically assign each unit a drainage point, where water is expected to drain through. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Accomack County, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague State Park, Atlantic Ocean, Chincoteague Bay, All tags... Chincoteague Island, E.A. Vaughn Wildlife Management Area, Ecology, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Marine Geology, Maryland, United States, Virginia, Wallops Island, Worcester County, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Mean tidal range in marsh units of Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay, Maryland and Virginia

Biomass production is positively correlated with mean tidal range in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States of America. Recent studies support the idea that enhanced stability of the marshes can be attributed to increased vegetative growth due to increased tidal range. This dataset displays the spatial variation of mean tidal range (i.e. Mean Range of Tides, MN) in the Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). MN was based on the calculated difference in height between mean high water (MHW) and mean low water (MLW) using the VDatum (v3.5) database ( http://vdatum.noaa.gov/ ). Through scientific efforts initiated...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Accomack County, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague State Park, Atlantic Ocean, Chincoteague Bay, All tags... Chincoteague Island, E.A. Vaughn Wildlife Management Area, Ecology, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Marine Geology, Maryland, United States, Virginia, Wallops Island, Worcester County, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, tidal range, tides (oceanic), vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Elevation of marsh units in Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay, Maryland and Virginia

Elevation distribution in the Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) salt marsh complex and Chincoteague Bay is given in terms of mean elevation of conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). The elevation data is based on the 1-meter resolution Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED). Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and ecosystem...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Accomack County, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague State Park, Atlantic Ocean, Chincoteague Bay, All tags... Chincoteague Island, E.A. Vaughn Wildlife Management Area, Ecology, Information Sciences, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Marine Geology, Maryland, Remote Sensing, United States, Virginia, Wallops Island, Worcester County, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, elevation, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio in Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay, Maryland and Virginia

Unvegetated to vegetated marsh ratio (UVVR) in the Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay is computed based on conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). UVVR was calculated based on U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1-meter resolution imagery. Through scientific efforts initiated with the Hurricane Sandy Science Plan, the U.S. Geological Survey has been expanding national assessment of coastal change hazards and forecast products to coastal wetlands, including the Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay salt marshes, with the intent of providing Federal, State, and local managers with tools to estimate the vulnerability and...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Accomack County, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague State Park, Atlantic Ocean, Chincoteague Bay, All tags... Chincoteague Island, E.A. Vaughn Wildlife Management Area, Ecology, Environmental Health, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, Information Sciences, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Marine Geology, Maryland, Remote Sensing, UVVR, United States, Virginia, Wallops Island, Worcester County, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, environment, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags

Thickness of Quaternary seismic stratigraphic units offshore of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters

Geologic structure and isopach maps were constructed by interpreting over 19.890 trackline kilometers of co-located multichannel boomer, sparker and chirp seismic reflection profiles from the continental shelf of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters. In this region, Brothers and others (2020) interpret 12 seismic units and 11 regional unconformities. They interpret the infilled channels as Late Tertiary and Quaternary courses of the Susquehanna, Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James Rivers and tributaries, in addition to a broad drainage system. These regional unconformities form a composite unconformity interpreted as the Quaternary-Tertiary (Q-T) unconformity. A depth to Tertiary...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: 32-bit GeoTIFF, Applied Acoustics S-Boom Source, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMHRP, Chesapeake Bay, Chincoteague Bay, Chincoteague Bight, Chincoteague Inlet, Chincoteague Island, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cobb Island, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, Fisherman Island, Geologic Framework, Geometrics 16-channel Geoeel Streamer, Hog Island, Holocene, Holocene, Interpretation, James River, Marayland Energy Administration, Marine Geology, Maryland, Maryland Wind Energy Area, Myrtle Island, Parramore Island, Persimmons Point, Pleistocene, Potomac River, Quaternary, Rappahannock River, Sea floor, Seismic Interpretation, Seismic-reflection Profiles, Ship Shoal Island, Smith Island, Susquehanna River, Tertiary, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Unconformity, Virginia, WHCMSC, Wallops Island, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Wreck Island, geologic contacts, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, oceans, scientific interpretation, Fewer tags

Lifespan of marsh units in Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Bay, Maryland and Virginia

The sediment-based lifespan of salt marsh units in Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) and Chincoteague Bay is shown for conceptual marsh units defined by Defne and Ganju (2018). The lifespan represents the timescale by which the current sediment mass within a marsh parcel can no longer compensate for sediment export and deficits induced by sea-level rise. The lifespan calculation is based on vegetated cover, marsh elevation, sediment supply, and sea-level rise (SLR) predictions after Ganju and others (2020). Sea level rise scenarios are present day estimates corresponding to the 0.3, 0.5, and 1.0 meter increase in Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) by 2100 from Sweet and others (2017). Through scientific efforts...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Accomack County, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assateague State Park, Atlantic Ocean, Chincoteague Bay, All tags... Chincoteague Island, E.A. Vaughn Wildlife Management Area, Environmental Health, LTER, Long-Term Ecological Research, Maryland, United States, Virginia, Wallops Island, Worcester County, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, elevation, environment, estuarine sediment transport, estuary, geospatial datasets, inlandWaters, lifespan, marsh health, oceans, salt marsh, sea level rise, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, Fewer tags