| TABLE 1. Areas of each sediment type identified in Figures 1,2, 4, 5 and 6 (the GIS coverages) and discussed in the text. | |||||
| LISSED Coverage (Figure 1) | |||||
| SEDIMENT TYPE | Square Kilometers | Square Miles | Percent | ||
| Coarse Sand | 670.22 | 258.5 | 20 | ||
| Gravel | 24.08 | 9.27 | 1 | ||
| Gravel - Sand | 137.77 | 53.14 | 4 | ||
| Medium Sand | 477.52 | 184.18 | 14 | ||
| Silt | 1040.37 | 401.27 | 31 | ||
| Fine Sand | 999.27 | 385.42 | 30 | ||
| TOTAL | 3349.23 | 1291.78 | 100 | ||
| NBFSED Coverage (Figure 2) | |||||
| SEDIMENT TYPE | Square Kilometers | Square miles | Percent | ||
| Gravel | 10.45 | 4.03 | 1 | ||
| Mud | 1057.7 | 407.96 | 55 | ||
| Rocky | 44.38 | 17.12 | 2 | ||
| Sand | 794.32 | 306.37 | 41 | ||
| Shell | 9.87 | 3.81 | 1 | ||
| TOTAL | 1916.72 | 739.29 | 100 | ||
| SCANSED Coverage (Figure 5) | |||||
| SEDIMENT TYPE | Square Kilometers | Square Miles | Percent | ||
| Fine Sand | 37.18 | 4.34 | 20 | ||
| Sand and Gravel, Sandwaves | 71.08 | 27.41 | 39 | ||
| Gravel, Sand & Boulders | 38.43 | 14.82 | 21 | ||
| Medium to CoarseSand | 32.74 | 12.63 | 18 | ||
| Sandy Gravel & Occaisional Boulders | 3.79 | 1.46 | 2 | ||
| TOTAL | 183.22 | 60.66 | 100 | ||
| SEDTEXT Coverage (Figure 6) | |||||
| SEDIMENT TYPE (see note 1) | Texture type (see note 2) | sq. kilo | sq. mile | sq. meter | percent |
| cs | fs | 0.18 | 0.07 | 175,965 | 0 |
| cs | gsbdr | 47.53 | 18.33 | 47,533,607 | 26 |
| cs | gsbld | 25.72 | 9.92 | 25,716,822 | 14 |
| cs | ms | 28.95 | 11.17 | 28,952,606 | 16 |
| fs | fs | 13.97 | 5.39 | 13,968,759 | 8 |
| fs | gsbdr | 6.25 | 2.41 | 6,251,535 | 3 |
| fs | gsbld | 1.25 | 0.48 | 1,252,471 | 1 |
| fs | ms | 1.71 | 0.66 | 1,707,633 | 1 |
| fs | sgbld | 1.76 | 0.68 | 1,754,900 | 1 |
| gs | fs | 6.15 | 2.37 | 6,151,206 | 3 |
| gs | gsbld | 4.58 | 1.77 | 4,577,957 | 3 |
| gs | sgbld | 1.63 | 0.63 | 1,627,946 | 1 |
| ms | fs | 16.69 | 6.44 | 16,684,990 | 9 |
| ms | gsbdr | 17.17 | 6.62 | 17,167,005 | 9 |
| ms | gsbld | 6.74 | 2.6 | 6,741,405 | 4 |
| ms | ms | 2.08 | 0.8 | 2,082,111 | 1 |
| ms | sgbld | 0.41 | 0.16 | 409,557 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 182.75 | 70.49 | 182,756,975 | 100 | |
| 1) Sediment type codes are as follows: | |||||
| cs: Coarse Sand | |||||
| fs: Fine Sand | |||||
| gs: Gravelly Sand | |||||
| ms: Medium Sand | |||||
| 2) Texture types are as follows: | |||||
| fs: Fine Sand | |||||
| gsbdr: Sand and Gravel, Sandwaves | |||||
| gsbld: Gravel, Sand & Boulders | |||||
| ms: Medium to CoarseSand | |||||
| sgbld: Sandy Gravel & Occaisional Boulders | |||||
| BULKSED Coverage (Figure 4) | |||||
| Sediment Type | Number of Stations (see note 3) | ||||
| Gravel | 2 | Percent | |||
| Gravel, Sand | 3 | 1 | |||
| Gravel, Shell | 1 | 1 | |||
| Gravel, Sand, Shell | 2 | 0 | |||
| Mud | 186 | 1 | |||
| Mud, Gravel | 2 | 45 | |||
| Muddy Sand | 29 | 1 | |||
| Muddy sand, Gravel, Shell | 1 | 7 | |||
| Mud, Shell | 14 | 0 | |||
| Rocky | 2 | 3 | |||
| Sand | 64 | 1 | |||
| Sand, Gravel | 27 | 15 | |||
| Shell | 8 | 7 | |||
| Shell, Sand | 2 | 2 | |||
| Sandy mud | 48 | 1 | |||
| Sandy mud, Shell | 1 | 11 | |||
| Sand, Rocks | 1 | 0 | |||
| Sand, Shell | 18 | 0 | |||
| TOTAL | 411 | 4 | |||
| 100 | |||||
| 3) two stations did not have substrate classifications | |||||