Little Traverse Bay
 

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Figure 4.1 - Shaded relief map of nearshore area along the south coast of Little Traverse Bay. Onshore the surface morphology of this region is marked by glacial drumlins aligned northwest-southeast overlying the Devonian carbonate strata, of the Traverse Group (Fig.1). Nearshore and at the western end of the survey the morphology is irregular and block suggesting possible outcrops of consolidated units of glacial or Devonian strata. Further offshore a series of smooth, shore parallel (east-west) an echelon ridges 1-3m high dominate to the 25-30 m depth of the survey, especially east of Nine Mile Point. This suggests more fine grained materials in the nearshore as you progress east toward the head of the bay. (See full-size JPEG--399 kb)

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Figure 4.2 - Oblique view looking southwest at nearshore off Big Rock Point. Rough irregular morphology (bedrock outcrop?) draped with shore normal bedforms extends from the coast offshore to the edge of the survey, except in the far left foreground, which appears depositional. Distance across the bottom of image is about 2.1km. (JPEG 266 kb)

Figure 4.3 - Oblique view of the eastern portion of the Little Traverse Bay data set looking west along the coast. This view illustrates the rough relief of outcrops (?) and coarser (?) substrate material nearshore (reds and orange depths and the the shore parallel offshore bar (green) in depths of 10-15m over lain by bar-normal bedforms (and shore normal) in the left foreground. Distance across the bottom of image is about 2.2 km.(Black Strips in Lidar data are gaps.) (JPEG 96 kb)

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