Context This sediment database contains location, description, and texture of samples taken by numerous marine sampling programs. Most of the samples are from the Atlantic Continental Margin of the United States, but some are from as diverse locations as Lake Baikal, Russia, the Hawaiian Islands region, Puerto Rico, the Gulf of Mexico, and Lake Michigan. The database presently contains data for over 27,000 samples, which includes texture data for approximately 3800 samples taken or analyzed by the Atlantic Continental Margin Program (ACMP), a joint U.S. Geological Survey/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution project conducted from 1962 to 1970. As part of the ACMP, some historical data from samples collected between 1955 and 1962 were also incorporated into the dataset. Content Some rows AREA 27784 non-null object LATITUDE 27784 non-null float64 LONGITUDE 27784 non-null float64 DEPTH_M 27784 non-null float64 T_DEPTH 27784 non-null float64 B_DEPTH 27784 non-null float64 DEVICE 27784 non-null object MONTH_COLL 27784 non-null int64 DAY_COLL 27784 non-null object YEAR_COLL 27784 non-null int64 Acknowledgements Csv file found here : https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/ecstdb2014-shp-u-s-geological-survey-east-coast-sediment-texture-database-201446d0d