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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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Length
millimeter (mm) 0.03937 inch (in.)
centimeter (cm) 0.3937 inch (in.)
meter (m) 3.281 feet (ft)
meter (m) 1.094 yard (yd)
kilometer (km) 0.6214 mile (mi)
kilometer (km) 0.5400 mile, nautical (nmi)
Area
square kilometer (km²) 0.3861 square mile (mi²)

Phi-notation (Krumbein, 1934) as used in this report is defined as: Φ = -log2 (d), where d is the grain diameter in millimeters. Phi-class intervals in millimeters are given in the data dictionary in the Sediment Distribution section of this report.

Current speeds are measured in knots (kt). 1 knot = 0.514 meter per second (m/s).

Horizontal coordinate information projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83); horizontal information in geographic coordinates is referenced to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84). The vertical datum for tidal-zone measurements is mean lower low water (MLLW).

Additional Abbreviations

Bathymetry adjusted for statistical error (BASE)

Differential global positioning systems (DGPS)

Digital terrain model (DTM)

Kilohertz (kHz)

Thousands of years before present (kyBP)

Multibeam echosounder (MBES)

Second (s)


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