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Open-File Report 2014-1224


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


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Figure 29. Seismic-reflection profile in the study area.

Figure 29. Seismic-reflection profile (Needell and Lewis, 1984; Poppe and others, 2002) and interpretation of a section of line a81_224, which crosses the west-central part of the study area. Stratified glaciolacustrine sediments are draped over acoustic basement interpreted to be bedrock. A fluvial unconformity can be seen cutting into the glaciolacustrine sediments southeast of the bedrock. Modern marine sediments overlie the glaciolacustrine and fluvial/estuarine sediments. Location of profile is shown in figure 13.  

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