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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 32. Map of sedimentary environments in the study area.

Figure 32. Map of sedimentary environments in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey H12298 study area, interpreted from multibeam-bathymetric, sidescan-sonar, sediment samples, and bottom photography data. Sedimentary environments in the study area include those characterized by processes of erosion or nondepostion, coarse-grained bedload transport, and sorting and reworking.  

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