In Cooperation with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-304

By
Ralph S. Lewis¹

Welcome!  As you view this CD-ROM we hope that you will keep a few things in mind. The main purpose of this publication is to provide you with digital versions of maps that were recently published during 2000 in the Journal of Coastal Research (JCR) as a Thematic Section.  The report also complements and is released as a companion to the sidescan sonar mosaics, databases, and bibliography of the Long Island Sound Environmental Studies CD-ROM (Poppe and Polloni, 1998). With the exception of Chapters 2, 11, and 12, all of the material on this CD-ROM is excerpted from papers contained in the Thematic Section.  Chapters 11 and 12 provide photographic supplements to the sediment and habitat related discussions in the Thematic Section.  Chapter 2 provides a digital version of Dr. Peter Dehlinger's free-air gravity anomaly map of Long Island and Block Island Sounds.  This map is offered as an accompaniment to the Thematic Section paper of Lewis and DiGiacomo-Cohen (2000) which reviews present knowledge of the geologic framework of Long Island Sound.

As Knebel and others (2000) point out in their introduction to the JCR Thematic Section "individual papers in the Thematic Section contribute to an integrated synthesis of the Long Island Sound estuarine system. This integration is intended to help readers appreciate how each part relates to the whole".  We hope to further your ability to integrate the collective information of the Thematic Section by providing much of it to you digitally.
 

REFERENCES:

Lewis, R.S. and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 2000, A review of the geologic framework of the Long Island Sound basin, with observations relating to postglacial sedimentation: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 16, in press.

Poppe, L.J. and Polloni, C. (Eds.), 1998, Long Island Sound Environmental Studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-502, CD-ROM.