U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-154

SEA-FLOOR PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN PROGRAM:

A Pictorial Survey of Benthic Character and Habitats
Along the U.S. East Coast

Photographic Gallery of personnel, facilities and equipment from the Continental Margin Program

Like an underwater "Grand Canyon", this model of the Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope rises abruptly in exaggerated terraces toward the Continental Shelf - with Delaware Bay, Long Island , and Cape Cod marking the U.S. coastline in the distance. The pagoda-like spirals in the foreground are seamounts rising from the the ocean floor. The model was constructed by a team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - U.S. Geological Survey geologists in 1964, patterned after a new series of Continental Shelf and Slope maps - just published by the two organizations.