دورية أكاديمية

Seafloor character and sedimentary processes in eastern Long Island Sound and western Block Island Sound.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Seafloor character and sedimentary processes in eastern Long Island Sound and western Block Island Sound.
المؤلفون: Poppe, L. J.1 lpoppe@usgs.gov, DiGiacomo-Cohen, M. L.2, Smith, S. M.3, Stewart, H. F.3, Forfinski, N. A.3
المصدر: Geo-Marine Letters. Jun2006, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p59-68. 10p. 2 Diagrams, 4 Graphs.
مصطلحات موضوعية: *PHYSICAL geology, *SEDIMENTARY structures, *GLACIERS, *SOUNDS (Geomorphology)
مصطلحات جغرافية: BLOCK Island Sound (R.I.), RHODE Island, NEW York (State), CONNECTICUT
مستخلص: Multibeam bathymetric data and seismic-reflection profiles collected in eastern Long Island Sound and western Block Island Sound reveal previously unrecognized glacial features and modern bedforms. Glacial features include an ice-sculptured bedrock surface, a newly identified recessional moraine, exposed glaciolacustrine sediments, and remnants of stagnant-ice-contact deposits. Modern bedforms include fields of transverse sand waves, barchanoid waves, giant scour depressions, and pockmarks. Bedform asymmetry and scour around obstructions indicate that net sediment transport is westward across the northern part of the study area near Fishers Island, and eastward across the southern part near Great Gull Island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
قاعدة البيانات: Academic Search Index
الوصف
تدمد:02760460
DOI:10.1007/s00367-006-0016-4