U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1100
Surficial Geology of the Sea Floor in Long Island Sound Offshore of Orient Point, New York
Title | List of Figures | Conversion Factors | Abstract | Introduction | Setting | Methods | Bathymetry | Sidescan Sonar | Sediments | Bottom Photography | GIS Data Catalog | Summary | Acknowledgments | References | Contacts
Figure 2. Map showing the location of end moraines (black polygons) and submerged moraine line (dashed lines) in southern New York and New England (modified from Gustavson and Boothroyd, 1987). The Ronkonkoma-Block Island-Nantucket end moraine represents the maximum advance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet about 20,000 years ago, and the Harbor Hill-Roanoke Point-Charleston-Buzzards Bay end moraine represents a retreated ice-sheet position from about 18,000 years ago (Uchupi and others, 2001). Click here for a larger version of this image. |