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Open-File Report 2014-1160


Sea-Floor Morphology and Sedimentary Environments of Western Block Island Sound, Northeast of Gardiners Island, New York


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Figure 13. An image of bathymetry in the study area.

Figure 13. Detailed bathymetric image of sand waves and megaripples in the southeastern part of the study area. Sand waves have crests that range from north-south to northeast-southwest, whereas megaripple crests range from north-south to northwest-southeast, becoming almost normal to the sand-wave crests in the west. Locations of sand-wave profiles A-A’ and B-B’ are also shown. Location of image is shown in figure 12.

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