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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1004

Sea-Floor Geology and Character of Eastern Rhode Island Sound West of Gay Head, Massachusetts

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Title | List of Figures | Conversion Factors | Abstract | Introduction | Setting | Methods | Bathymetry | Sediment Distribution | Bottom Photography | GIS Data Catalog | Summary | Acknowledgments | References | Contacts

Figure 5. A photograph of Gay Head cliffs.

Figure 5. Photograph of the Gay Head cliffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The colorful cliffs are composed of dislocated and thrust-faulted coastal plain deposits, capped by a veneer of glacial till.

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