Shallow Geology, Sea-Floor Texture, and Physiographic Zones of Vineyard and Western Nantucket Sounds, Massachusetts, Table 1

Open-File Report 2016-1119

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

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Table 1. Sources of bathymetry, backscatter, and seismic-reflection data used in the Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds, Massachusetts study area.

[JALBTCX, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise; lidar, light detection and ranging; kHz, kilohertz]

Vessel	Date	Bathymetry	Acoustic backscatter	Seismic reflection	Citation
Various¹	1938-94	Lead-line and single-beam sonar	None	None	National Geophysical Data Center (2012)
Whiting¹(29-foot launches)	2001	240-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam sonar	Klein 5000 dual-frequency sidescan sonar	None	Poppe and others (2008)
Thomas Jefferson¹ (29-foot launches)	2004	455-kHz Reson 8125 and 240-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam sonars	Klein 5000 dual-frequency sidescan sonar	None	Poppe and others (2007)
Thomas Jefferson¹ (29-foot launches)	2004	455-kHz Reson 8125 and 240-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam sonars	Klein 5000 dual-frequency sidescan sonar	None	Poppe and others (2010)
Thomas Jefferson¹ (29-foot launches)	2008	455-kHz Reson 8125 and 240-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam sonars	Data not used for this study	None	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2008a, b)
JALBTCX² (lidar plane)	2007	SHOALS-1000T	None	None	US Army Corps of Engineers –Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (2009)
Megan T. Miller and Scarlet Isabella³	2009-11	SEA SWATHplus 234-kHz interferometric sonar system	Klein 3000 dual-frequency sidescan sonar	EdgeTech Geo-Star FSSB subbottom profiling system and an SB–0512i towfish	Andrews and others (2014)
Rafael³	2010	SEA SWATHplus 234-kHz interferometric sonar system	Klein 3000 dual-frequency sidescan sonar, or an SEA SWATHplus interferometric sonar system	EdgeTech Geo-Star FSSB subbottom profiling system and an SB–424 towfish	Pendleton and others (2012)
Rafael³	2010	None	None	Boomer and 8-channel Geometrics GeoEel streamer	Pendleton and others (2014)
Rafael³	2011	SEA SWATHplus 234-kHz interferometric sonar system	Klein 3000 dual-frequency sidescan sonar, or a SEA SWATHplus interferometric sonar system	Knudsen Engineering Ltd. Chirp 3200 3.5 kHz	Pendleton and others (2014)

¹Data collected by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

²Data collected by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

³Data collected by U.S. Geological Survey.

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