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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 3. Image of Uniboom seismic-reflection profile.

Figure 3. Segment of Uniboom seismic-reflection profile collected across a part of Block Island Sound (RV Asterias 81-2, line 10; Needell and Lewis, 1984). Profile shows that (1) marine, fluvial, and estuarine deposits are thin or absent in the northern part of the study area, but thicken southward on the floor of the sound, (2) glaciolacustrine sediments comprise most of the sedimentary section, and (3) outliers of coastal plain cap some of the bedrock highs. Location of seismic profile is shown in figure 18.


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