U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-019

Gulf of Mexico GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Geologic Interpretation:
Arcview Data Coverages


References and selected publications


Amery, G.B., 1969, Structure of Sigsbee Scarp, Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 53, p. 2480-2482.

Antoine, J.W., Bryant, W.R., and Jones, William, 1967, Structural features of continental shelf, slope, and scarp, northeastern Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 51, p. 257-262.

Atlas of GLORIA Sidescan-Sonar Imagery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States: EEZ-View, 1997, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-540, 1 CD-ROM.

CD-ROM Atlas of the Deepwater Parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Caribbean Sea, 1993, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-15.

Chavez, P.S., Jr., 1986, Processing techniques for digital sonar images from GLORIA: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, v52, no. 8, p. 1133-1145.

Digital Mosaics of the GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Data of the Gulf of Mexico, 1996, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-657, 1 CD-ROM.

EEZ-Scan 84 Scientific Staff, 1986, Atlas of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, Western Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-1792, 152p., scale 1:500,000.

EEZ-Scan 85 Scientific Staff, 1987, Atlas of the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone, Gulf of Mexico and eastern Caribbean areas: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations I-1864-A, 104 p., scale 1:500,000.

EEZ-Scan 87 Scientific Staff, 1991, Atlas of the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone Atlantic Continental Margin: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-2054, 174p.

Freeman-Lynde, R.P., 1983, Cretaceous and Tertiary samples dredged from the Florida Escarpment, eastern Gulf of Mexico: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 33, p. 91-99.

Garrison, L.E., Kenyon, N.H., and Bouma, A.H., 1982, Channel systems and lobe construction in the Mississippi Fan: Geo-Marine Letters,. v. 2, p. 33-39.

Geology of the United States Seafloor: The View from GLORIA, 1996, Gardner, J.V., Field, M.E., Twichell, D.C. editors, Cambridge University Press, 371p.

GLORIA Gulf of Mexico, 1988, GLORIA Data: Gulf of Mexico, Office of Energy and Marine Geology CD-ROM, out of print.

GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Field Data and Navigation Data Collected in the Gulf of Mexico During R/V Farnella Cruises in 1982 and 1985, 1996, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-707, 1 CD-ROM.

Hill, G.W., and McGregor, B.A., 1988, Small-scale mapping of the Exclusive Economic Zone using wide-swath side-scan sonar: Marine Geodesy, v. 12, p. 41-53.

Kenyon, N.H., 1992, Speculations on the geological causes of backscatter variation on GLORIA sonographs from the Mississippi and DeSoto Fans, Gulf of Mexico: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 12, p. 24-32.

Kenyon, N.H., Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Nelson, C.H., 1992, Sand lobes on the Mississippi fan: The Geological Society British Sedimentological Research Group, Abstracts with Programs (Abstract).

Lee, H.J., Schwab, W.C., Kayen, R.E., Edwards, B.D., Twichell, D.C., Field, M.E., and Gardner, J.V., 1993, The relation between sidescan-sonar imagery and sediment physical properties: A comparison of two deep-sea fan systems: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Acoustic Classification and Mapping of the Seabed, v. 15, pt. 2, p. 319-326.

McGregor, B.A., Rothwell, R.G., Kenyon, N.H., and Twichell. D.C., 1993, Salt tectonics and slope failure in an area of salt domes in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, in Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Twichell, D.C., eds., Submarine landslides: Selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2002, p. 92-96.

McGregor, B.A., and Hill, G.W., 1989, Seafloor image maps of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone: Hydrographic Journal, v. 53, p. 9-13.

McGregor, B.A., 1988, Mapping the EEZ: The first million square miles: U.S. Geological Survey Yearbook, Fiscal Year 1987, p. 64-68.

McGregor, B.A., Kenyon, N.H., Rothwell, R.G., Twichell, D.C., and Parson, L.M., 1986, Sidescan sonar mapping of the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico: Geophysics, v. 51, p. 1515.

McGregor, B.A., 1987a, A sonar view of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Yearbook, Fiscal Year 1986, p. 62-65.

McGregor, B.A., and Schoonmaker, J.W., 1986, Image processed sidescan sonar data: An aid to geologic interpretation: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Meeting Proceedings, v. 5, p. 223-232.

McGregor, B.A., and Twichell, D.C., 1985, U.S. Geological Survey Gulf of Mexico GLORIA program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-465, 18 p.

Nelson, C.H., Twichell, D.C., and Schwab, W.C., 1993, Influence of sediment supply and slope stability on depositional style of present-day Mississippi margin turbidite systems: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 77, p. 525 (Abstract).

Nelson, C.H., Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., 1992, Late Pleistocene turbidite sand beds and chaotic silt beds in the channelized distal outer fan lobes of Mississippi Fan: Geology, v. 20, p. 693-696.

Nelson, C.H., O'Connell, S., Maldonado, A., Twichell, D.C., and Pulham, A., 1992, Classification of turbidite systems: A suggestion for an old problem: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (Abstract).

Paull, C.K., Spiess, F.N., Curray, J.R., and Twichell, D.C., 1990, Origin of Florida Canyon and the role of spring sapping on the formation of submarine box canyons: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 502-515.

Paull, C.K., Twichell, D.C., Spiess, F.N., and Curray, J.R., 1991, Morphological development of the Florida Escarpment: Observations on the generation of time transgressive unconformities in carbonate terrains: Marine Geology, v. 101, p. 181-201.

Schoonmaker, J.W., and McGregor, B.A., 1986, GLORIA processing: From digital data to film mosaic: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Meeting Proceedings, v. 5, p. 213-222.

Schoonmaker, J.W., and McGregor, B.A., 1987, Sea floor mapping using GLORIA digital techniques in Positioning the future, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Positioning, Reston, VA, Oct. 1986: Dordrecht, Netherlands, D. Reidel Pubs. Co., p. 259-264.

Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., Twichell, D.C., Locat, J., Nelson, C.H., McArthur, W.G., and Kenyon, N.H., 1996, Sediment mass-flow processes on a depositional lobe, outer Mississippi Fan: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, no. 5, p. 916-927.

Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Winters, W.J., Lee, H.J., McArthur, W.J., Nelson, C.H., DaSilva, J.A., and Kenyon, N.H., 1993, Sediment mass transport mechanisms and deposition on the distal Mississippi Fan: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (Abstract).

Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Lee. H.J., Nelson, C.H., and Kenyon, N.H., 1992, Late Pleistocene sedimentation on the distal Mississippi Fan: Mass-transport mechanisms: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (Abstract).

Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., 1991, Depositional processes on the Mississippi Fan: Sedimentology and transport mechanisms: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 5, p. A386.

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Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Kenyon, N.H., and Lee, H.J., 1996, Breaching the levee of a channel on the Mississippi Fan, in Gardner, J.V., Field, M.E., and Twichell, D.C., editors, Geology of the U.S. Seafloor: The view from GLORIA, Cambridge Univ. Press (Dir. appr., May, 93 - 29 ms pages).

Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., and Kenyon, N.H., 1995, Geometry of sandy deposits at the distal edge of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico, in Pickering, K.T., et al., eds., An Atlas of Deep-Water Systems, Turbidite System Architectural Style Chapman and Hall, Ltd, London, UK.

Twichell, D.C., Valentine, P.C., and Parson, L.M., 1993, Slope failure of carbonate sediment on the West Florida Slope, in Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Twichell, D.C., eds, Submarine Landslides: Selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2002, p. 69-78.

Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Kenyon, N.H., Nelson, C.H., and Lee, H.J., 1993, Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Sedimentation on the distal Mississippi fan: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 77, p. 529 (Abstract).

Twichell, D.C. and O'Brien, T.F., 1993, Application of sidescan sonar to geological sea floor mapping: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, v. 93, no. 4, pt. 2, p. 2339 (Abstract).

Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., and Kenyon, N.H., 1993, Hierarchy of depositional features on the Mississippi Fan, a predictive tool for deep-sea fan studies: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A-181 (Abstract).

Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., 1992, Characteristics of a sandy depositional lobe on the outer Mississippi Fan from SeaMARC IA sidescan sonar images: Geology, v. 20, p. 689-692.

Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., Kenyon, N.H., O'Brien, T.F., and Danforth, W.W., 1992, Ground truthing the distal Mississippi Fan with SeaMARC images and cores: What happens at the end of the pipe: USGS research on energy resources, 1992, Program and Abstracts: US Geological Survey Circular 1074, p. 77 (Abstract).

Twichell, D.C., Kenyon, N.H., Parson, L.M., and McGregor, B.A., 1991, Depositional patterns of the Mississippi Fan surface: Evidence from GLORIA II and high-resolution seismic profiles, in Weimer, P., and Link, M.H., eds., Seismic facies and sedimentary processes of modern and ancient submarine fans: New York, Springer-Verlag.

Twichell, D.C., Paull, C.K., and Parson, L.M., 1991, Terraces on the Florida Escarpment: Implications for erosional processes: Geology, v. 19, p. 897-900.

Twichell, D.C., Parson, L.M., and Paull, C.K., 1990, Variations in the styles of erosion along the Florida Escarpment, eastern Gulf of Mexico: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 7, p. 253-266.

Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., 1991, Depositional processes on the Mississippi Fan: sidescan sonar images: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 5, p. A386. (Abstract)

Twichell, D.C. and O'Connell, S., 1990, Comparison of GLORIA and SeaMARC I sidescan sonar images on the lower Mississippi Fan, eastern Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74, p. 781. (Abstract)

Twichell, D.C., 1988, Erosion of the Florida Escarpment: Eastern Gulf of Mexico: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Ph.D. Dissertation, 173 p. [an error occurred while processing this directive]