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Open-File Report 2014-1160


Sea-Floor Morphology and Sedimentary Environments of Western Block Island Sound, Northeast of Gardiners Island, New York


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Figure 16. Sand wave profiles in the study area.

Figure 16. Profiles of sand waves to the northwest (C-C’ and D-D’) and southwest (E-E’ and F-F’) of Cerberus Shoal. Sand waves northwest of the shoal indicate that converging net sediment transport maintains a bathymetric high (C-C’) and that elsewhere there is generally eastward transport (D-D’). In the southwest, there is net westward sediment transport (E-E’), and there are areas without a dominant transport direction (F-F’). Locations of profiles D-D’ and E-E’ are shown in figure 15, location of F-F’ is shown in figure 20, and all profile locations are shown in figure 12. VE, vertical exaggeration.

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