Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Canyon region offshore of New York and New Jersey
Open-File Report
2004-1441
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Abstract
These maps show the sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Canyon region on the continental slope and rise offshore of New Jersey and New York (fig. 1 and fig. 2). Sheet 1 shows sea floor topography as shaded relief. Sheet 2 shows sea floor topography as shaded relief with backscatter intensity superimposed in color. Both sheets are at a scale of 1:300,000 and also show smoothed topographic contours at selected intervals. The maps are based on new multibeam echo-sounder data collected on an 18-day cruise carried out aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ship Ronald H. Brown during August and September 2002. Additional multibeam data of the Hudson Canyon collected by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), on the continental shelf collected by the STRATAFORM project (Goff and others, 1999), and a survey of the Hudson Shelf Valley (Butman and others, 2003), and a compilation of bathymetric data from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Coastal Relief Model provide coverage of areas surrounding Hudson Canyon (fig. 2). Interpretations of the surficial geology also utilize widely spaced 3.5- and 10-kiloHertz (kHz) high-resolution seismic profiles collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (fig.2).
Suggested Citation
Butman, B., Twichell, D.C., Rona, P.A., Tucholke, B.E., Middleton, T.J., Robb, J.M., 2006, Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Canyon region offshore of New York and New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1441, HTML Document; 2 Plates: 42.0 x 62.0 inches and 42.0 x 54.0 inches, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041441.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Canyon region offshore of New York and New Jersey |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2004-1441 |
| ISBN | 1411310438 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20041441 |
| Year Published | 2006 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Woods Hole Science Center |
| Description | HTML Document; 2 Plates: 42.0 x 62.0 inches and 42.0 x 54.0 inches |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey, New York |
| Other Geospatial | Hudson Canyon |
| Datum | World Geodetic System 1984 |
| Projection | Mercator projection |
| Scale | 300000 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | Y |