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Geology and structure of Block Island Sound, Rhode Island and New York /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Needell, Sally W.
Corporate Authors: Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut
Other Authors: Lewis, Ralph S.
Format: Government Document Map
Language:English
Published: Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey, 1984.
Series:Miscellaneous field studies (Geological Survey (U.S.)) ; map MF-1621.
Subjects:
Submarine topography > Rhode Island > Block Island Sound > Maps.
Table of Contents:
  • Figure 1. Index map showing study area
  • Figure 2. Sea-floor topography and high-resolution subbottom profiles
  • Figure 3. Depth to bedrock and submerged coastal-plain strata
  • Figure 4. Thickness of glacial drift
  • Figure 5. Thickness of end-moraine deposits
  • Figure 6. Thickness of glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Figure 7. Depth to glacial drift surface
  • Figure 8. Thickness of postglacial (Holocene) deposits
  • Figure 9. Surficial geology and interpretive cross sections A-Aʹ and B-Bʹ.