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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1004

Sea-Floor Geology in Central Rhode Island Sound South of Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island


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Figure 15. A seismic-reflection profile across the study area.

Figure 15. Seismic-reflection profile A-A', a section of line 2a obtained during cruise NECH80-1 on the research vessel Neecho in 1980 (McMullen and others, 2009), with interpretation. Line shows a fluvial unconformity in the south, under an area dominated by erosional outliers and scour depressions, and glacial drift elsewhere. Location of line shown in figure 12.

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