U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1005
Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processes of Block Island Sound, Offshore Rhode Island
Figure 38. Distribution of sedimentary environments based on the digital terrain model from combined National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) surveys H12009, H12010, H12011, H12015, H12033, H12137, and H12139; unpublished NOAA survey H12299 located adjacent to the southwestern corner of the (DTM); and the sampling and photography data from U.S. Geological Survey cruise 2011-006-FA that were used to verify the acoustic data. Areas characterized by processes associated with erosion or nondeposition, coarse bedload transport, sorting and reworking, and deposition are shown. |