Sidescan-Sonar Imagery of the Shoreface and Inner Continental Shelf, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina

Figure 12. Where exposed on the seafloor, mud-filled tidal creek lithosomes can be traced across the lower shoreface and inner shelf as distinct bands of low backscatter (fine) sediment.Outlines of exposed creeks are shown here by the black lines.

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