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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 4. Map of end moraines near the study area.

Figure 4. Map, modified from Stone and Borns (1986) and Gustavson and Boothroyd (1987), showing locations of end moraines (black polygons) in southern New England and on Long Island, New York. The Ronkonkoma-Nantucket moraine marks the Laurentide Ice Sheet's southern extent at glacial maximum about 20-24 kyBP, and the Harbor Hill-Roanoke Point-Charlestown-Buzzards Bay moraine represents the ice sheet position after a readvance around 18 kyBP (Uchupi and others, 1996). Underwater extensions of the moraines are shown as dashed lines. For a larger view of the image click here.


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