Abstract:
The purpose of the data file presented below is twofold: the first purpose
is to make available in printed form the basic data relating to the samples
collected as part of the joint U.S. Geological Survey - Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution program of study of the Atlantic continental margin of the United
States; the second purpose is to maintain these data in a form that is easily
retrievable by modern computer methods. With the data in such form, repeated
manual transcription for statistical or similar mathematical treatment becomes
unnecessary. Manual plotting of information or derivatives from the information
may also be eliminated. Not only is handling of data by the computer considerably
faster than manual techniques, but a fruitful source of errors, transcription
mistakes, is eliminated.
