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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1005

Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processes of Block Island Sound, Offshore Rhode Island


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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 | Index


Figure 42. Two photographs comparing the sea floor of a scour depression with the surrounding floor.

Figure 42. Bottom photographs showing a comparison of the rippled gravelly sand in a scour depression at station BIS85 with the adjacent undulating, muddy sand outside the scour depression at the same station. Sediments within scour depressions are typically coarser than those on the surrounding sea floor in Block Island Sound. Station location is shown in figures 14 and 37.


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