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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 19. Sand wave profiles in the study area.

Figure 19. Profiles of barchanoid sand waves (G-G’ and H-H’) and transverse megaripples near the current-scoured bathymetric depression (I-I’). Barchanoid sand waves along the western border of the study area indicate eastward net sediment transport (G-G’), whereas those to the southwest of Cerberus Shoal have profiles that indicate westward net sediment transport (H-H’). Transverse megaripples in the bathymetric depression have symmetrical profiles that indicate no dominant net sediment-transport direction. Location of profile H-H’ is shown in figure 20, location of I-I’ is shown in figure 18, and locations of all of the profiles are shown in figure 12. VE, vertical exaggeration.

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