Sediment Texture and Geomorphology of the Sea Floor from Fenwick Island, Maryland to Fisherman's Island, Virginia

These data are a qualitatively derived interpretive polygon shapefile defining surficial sediment type and distribution, and geomorphology, for nearly 1,400 square kilometers of sea floor on the inner-continental shelf from Fenwick Island, Maryland to Fisherman’s Island, Virginia, USA. These data are classified according to Barnhardt and others (1998) bottom-type classification system, which was modified to highlight changes in secondary sediment-types such as mud and gravel across this primarily sandy shelf. Most of the geophysical and sample data used to create this interpretive layer were collected as part of the Linking Coastal Processes and Vulnerability: Assateague Island Regional Study project (GS2-2C), supported...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assawoman Island, Atlantic Ocean, Backscatter, All tags... Bathymetry, Bottom Photographs, Bottom Type, Cape Henlopen, Cedar Island, Chincoteague Inlet, Chincoteague Island, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Cobb Island, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, Delmarva Peninsula, Fenwick Island, Fisherman's Island, Hog Island, Interpretation, Marine Geology, Maryland, Metompkin Island, Mid-Atlantic Bight, Mink Island, Mockhorn Island, Myrtle Island, Ocean City, Parramore Island, Rehoboth, Sea floor, Sediment Cover, Sediment Distribution, Sediment Samples, Sediment Texture, Ship Shoal Island, Sidescan Sonar, Slope, Smith Island, Virginia, Wallops Island, Wreck Island, carbonate, geomorphology, interpretation, marine geology, marine geophysics, sea-floor characteristics, sediment texture, Fewer tags

Geospatial Data Layers of Shallow Geology, Sea-Floor Texture, and Physiographic Zones from the Inner Continental Shelf of Martha’s Vineyard from Aquinnah to Wasque Point, and Nantucket from Eel Point to Great Point

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquinnah, Atlantic Ocean, Chappaquiddick Island, Children's Beach, Chilmark, All tags... Coatue, Dionis Beach, Eel Point, Gay Head, Geography, Geologic Framework, Geomorphology, Geophysics, Great Point, Holocene, Katama Beach, Long Point Wildlife Refuge, Marine Geology, Marine Geology, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (MA), Muskeget Channel, Muskeget Island, Muskeget Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Harbor, Sea floor, Sediment Distribution, Sediment Texture, Sediment thickness, Seismic Interpretation, Shovelful Shoal, South Beach, Squibnocket Point, Surficial Geology, Tisbury Great Pond Beach, Tuckernuck Bank, Tuckernuck Island, Unconformity, Wasque point, stratigraphy, Fewer tags

Sediment Texture of the Sea Floor offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquinnah, Atlantic Ocean, Backscatter, Bathymetry, Bottom Photographs, All tags... Bottom type, CMGP, CZM, Cape Cod, Chappaquiddick Island, Children's Beach, Chilmark, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Coatue, Dionis Beach, Eel Point, Esri Shapefile, Gay Head, Great Point, Interpretation, Katama Beach, Long Point Wildlife Refuge, Lucy Vincent Beach, Marine Geology, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, Muskeget Channel, Muskeget Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Harbor, Nantucket Sound, Nomans Land, Sea floor, Sediment Cover, Sediment Distribution, Sediment Samples, Sediment Texture, Seismic-reflection Profiles, Shovelful Shoal, Slope, South Beach, Squibnocket Beach, Squibnocket Point, Tisbury, Tisbury Great Pond Beach, Topography, Tuckernuck Bank, Tuckernuck Island, Tuckernuck Shoal, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1288, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1006, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1168, USGS, Vineyard Sound, WHCMSC, Wasque Shoal, Wasque point, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, clay deposits, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, grain size analysis, gravel deposits, lithologic maps, marine geology, oceans, sand deposits, scientific interpretation, sea-floor characteristics, sedimentology, surficial geologic units, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags