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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 glacial moraines on land and submerged on the continental shelf, ice-front locations for southern New England, and glacial lakes and associated outlet spillways.


Figure 2. Map showing glacial moraines on land and submerged on the continental shelf (compiled from Stone and others, 2005; Boothroyd, 2008; Stone and DiGiacomo-Cohen, 2009; and Stone and others 2011), ice-front locations for southern New England (from Ridge, 2004), and glacial lakes and associated outlet spillways (compiled from Larsen, 1982; Uchupi and Mulligan, 2006). Inset illustrates the relative locations of four lobes of the Laurentide ice sheet in southeastern New England (modified from Oldale and Barlow, 1986). Figure is modified from Foster and others (2015).

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