Location map showing the 18 quadrangles in the Stellwagen Bank region. Click on a quadrangle in the map to go to the index page for that quadrangle, or click on one of the links in the menu at left. SBNMS, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

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

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

U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2010

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Suggested citation:
Valentine, P.C., Gallea, L.B., Blackwood, D.S., and Twomey, E.R., 2010, Seabed photographs, sediment texture analyses, and sun-illuminated sea floor topography in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 469, available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/469/.

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