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Sea-Floor Morphology and Sedimentary Environments in Western Block Island Sound, Offshore of Fishers Island, New York

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Figure 12. An image showing bedrock on the sea floor.

Figure 12. Detailed multibeam-bathymetric image of exposed bedrock on the sea floor of the study area. Bedrock has ridges oriented north-northwest to south-southeast that parallel nearby onshore and offshore glacially striated bedrock (Goldsmith, 1962; Schafer, 1965; and Poppe and others, 2007). Location of image is shown in figure 13.

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