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Submarine processes of the middle Atlantic continental rise based on GLORIA imagery

January 1, 1991

Approximately 6100 km of 3.5-kHz echo-sounding profiles was correlated with a GLORIA side-scan sonar image of the mid-Atlantic United States (34??N, 70??W) lower slope-upper continental rise. The image allows us to map the major erosional and depositional features and to identify major processes that have shaped the area. Interpretation of GLORIA imagery and echo-sounding profiles indicates that mass movement is the predominant process affecting sediment on the United States east coast mid-Atlantic slope and upper rise and that isobath-parallel sediment movement by geostrophic currents is restricted mainly to the lower continental rise. The mass-movement processes evident on the rise probably were most active during the Pleistocene, when sea level was lower and sediment input more active. -from Authors

Publication Year 1991
Title Submarine processes of the middle Atlantic continental rise based on GLORIA imagery
DOI 10.1130/0016-7606(1991)103<1090:SPOTMA>2.3.CO;2
Authors J. S. Schlee, James M. Robb
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Geological Society of America Bulletin
Index ID 70016536
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center