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Open-File Report 2016–1119


Shallow Geology, Sea-Floor Texture, and Physiographic Zones of Vineyard and Western Nantucket Sounds, Massachusetts 


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Map showing the elevation of the late Wisconsinan to Early Holocene regressive unconformity Ur, which identifies the eroded surface of Pleistocene glacial drift beneath Vineyard and Western Nantucket Sounds.


Figure 15. Map showing the elevation (referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988) of the late Wisconsinan to early Holocene age regressive unconformity Ur, which identifies the eroded surface of Pleistocene glacial drift beneath Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds. Ur represents a composite unconformity where it locally merges with the fluvial unconformity U1 at the base of Pleistocene sediments or is truncated by the Holocene transgressive unconformity (Ut). The surface illustrates the topographic morphologies of prominent glacial features in the shallow subsurface, including high-relief bouldery moraines (M) and ice-contact deposits (IC), moderate-relief ice-marginal drift ridge cores of Lucas (L), Middle Ground (MG), L'Hommedieu (LH), Hedge Fence (HF), and Squash Meadow (SM) shoals, fluvial drainage outlets cut through ice-marginal sills (O), relatively low-relief outwash plains (OP), and linear-to-sinuous depressions of meltwater drainage channels (MD). SV, sapping valleys; CH, Cuttyhunk; A, Aquinnah; MPP, Mashpee Pitted Plain; MC, Muskeget Channel.

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