Surficial Geology of the Sea Floor in Long Island Sound Offshore of Orient Point, New York

by K.Y. McMullen,¹ L.J. Poppe,¹ W.W. Danforth,¹ D.S. Blackwood,¹ J.D. Schaer,² M.R. Guberski,³ D.A. Wood,⁴ and E.F. Doran⁵

¹Coastal and Marine Geology Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543
²Office of Coast Survey, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD 20910
³NOAA Research Vessel Bay Hydro II, Solomons, MD 20688
⁴NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, Norfolk, VA 23510
⁵Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford, CT 06106

U.S. Department of the Interior
KEN SALAZAR, Secretary

U.S. Geological Survey
Marcia K. McNutt, Director

U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 2011

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McMullen, K.Y., Poppe, L.J., Danforth, W.W., Blackwood, D.S., Schaer, J.D., Guberski, M.R., Wood, D.A., and Doran, E.F., 2011, Surficial geology of the sea floor in Long Island Sound offshore of Orient Point, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1100, CD-ROM. (Also available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1100/.)

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