U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-154

SEA-FLOOR PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN PROGRAM:

A Pictorial Survey of Benthic Character and Habitats
Along the U.S. East Coast

Photographic Gallery of personnel, facilities and equipment from the Continental Margin Program

Dr. Elazar Uchupi, WHOI, locates the Hatteras Canyon on this new map showing the submarine topography of the Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope. The U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are preparing three such sheets that will map the shelf at a scale of 1 inch equals 16 miles from Nova Scotia to Florida - the first detailed series of its kind.