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New York Bight

Publications

Signell, R.P., and Butman, B., 1991, Estimates of Sediment Movement and Resuspension in the New York Bight: Implications for Dredged Material Disposal.  Open-File Report 91-359, U.S. Geological Survey, 24 p.

Schwab, W.C., Allison, M.A., Corso, W., Lotto, L.L., Butman, B., Buchholtz ten Brink, M., Denny, J., Danforth, W.W., and Foster, D.S., 1997, Initial results of high-resolution sea-floor mapping offshore of the New York - New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar:  Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, v. 19 (4), p. 243-262.

Butman, B., Mapping the Sea Floor Geology Offshore of the New York - New Jersey Metropolitan Region.  U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 133-98.  Online at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs133-98/>

Mecray, E., ten Brink, M.B., and  Butman, B., 1999,  Contaminants and Marine Geology in the New York Bight: Modern sediment dynamics and a legacy for the future, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet,114-99.  Online at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs114-99/>

Butman, B., Gutierrez, B.T., ten Brink, M. B., Schwab, W.S., Blackwood, D.S., Mecray, E.L., and Middleton, T.J., 2003, Photographs of the Sea Floor Offshore of New York and New Jersey, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-470.  1 DVD-ROM.  On line at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-470/

Butman, B., 2002, Mapping the sea floor of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS) offshore of New York City. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-001-02.  Online at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs001-02/>

Maps

Schwab, W.C., Corso, W., Alison, M.A., Butman, B., Denny, J.F., Lotto, L., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., O’Brien, T.F., Nichols, D.A., Irwin, B.J., and Parolski, K.F., 1997, Mapping the sea floor geology offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar: preliminary report:  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-61, 3 sheets.

Butman, B. Danforth, W.W, Knowles, S.C., May, Brian, and Serrett, Laurie, 2002, Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS), offshore of New York, based on multibeam surveys conducted in 1996, 1998, and 2000.  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-503, 1 DVD-ROM.  Online at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-503/>

Schwab, W.C., Denny, J.F., Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., Swift, B.A., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A. and Thieler, E.R., 2000, Sea-floor characterization offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar.  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-295.  Online at < http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-295/>

Schwab, W.C. Denny, J.F., Foster, D.S., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A., Uchupi, E., Swift, B.A., Danforth W.W., Thieler, E.R., and Butman, B., 2003, High-resolution quaternary seismic stratigraphy of the New York Bight Continental Shelf:  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-152.  1 DVD-ROM.  Online at < http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-152/>

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