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Open-File Report 2014-1220


Shallow Geology, Sea-Floor Texture, and Physiographic Zones of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts 


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Map showing the thickness of postglacial fluvial and estuarine (Qfe) and nearshore marine (Qmn) sediments beneath Buzzards Bay.


Figure 15. Map showing the thickness of postglacial fluvial and estuarine (Qfe) and nearshore marine (Qmn) sediments beneath Buzzards Bay. The black polygon depicts the boundary of the seismic-survey area. The bathymetry hillshade relief map is modified from the composite bathymetry of Buzzards Bay (fig. 3).