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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 43. Two photographs of the rippled sea floor.

Figure 43. Bottom photographs from stations BIS6 and BIS8 showing views of current-rippled sea floor composed of coarse to medium sand. Note the concentration of shell debris and gravel in the ripple troughs. Station locations are shown in figures 14 and 37.


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