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Publications and References

Below is a list of selected USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program and Water Resources publications for the Cape Cod and Islands region. To search for additional publications, please visit the Woods Hole Science Center's (WHSC) Publications website or the U.S. Geological Survey Publications Warehouse.

• Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processes in the Vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts; 2008, Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Foster, D.S., Blackwood, D.S., Williams, S.J., Ackerman, S.D., Barnum, S.R., and Brennan, R.T.; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1004
• Sidescan-sonar imagery and surficial geologic interpretation of the sea floor in Central Rhode Island Sound; 2008, McMullen, K.Y., Poppe, L.J., Denny, J.F., Haupt, T.A., and Crocker, J.M.; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1366
• Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processed of Great Round Shoal Channel, Offshore Massachusetts; 2007, L.J. Poppe, S.D. Ackerman, D.S. Foster, D.S. Blackwood, S.J. Williams, M.S. Moser, H.F. Steward, and K.A. Glomb; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1138
• Sidescan-Sonar Imagery, Multibeam Bathymetry, and Surficial Geologic Interpretations of the Sea Floor in Rhode Island Sound, off Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island; 2007, K.Y. McMullen, L.J. Poppe, E.R. Twomey, W.W. Danforth, T.A. Haupt, and J.M. Crocker; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1150
• Sea-Floor Character and Surface Processes in the Vicinity of Quicks Hole, Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts; 2007, Lawrence J. Poppe, Seth D. Ackerman, David S. Foster, Dann S. Blackwood, Bradford Butman, M.S. Moser, and H.F Stewart, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1357
• A GIS Library of Multibeam Data for Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Offshore of Boston, Massachusetts; 2007, Bradford Butman, Page C. Valentine, Tammie J. Middleton, and William W. Danforth, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 99
• High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Boston Harbor and Approaches, Massachusetts; 2006, Seth D. Ackerman, Bradford Butman, Walter A. Barnhardt, William W. Danforth and James M. Crocker, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1008, 1 DVD-ROM.
• High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Nahant to Gloucester, Massachusetts; 2006, Walter A. Barnhardt, Brian D. Andrews, and Bradford Butman, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1293
• Geological Interpretation of Bathymetric and Backscatter Imagery of the Sea Floor Off Eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts; 2006, L.J. Poppe, V.F. Paskevich, B.Butman, S.D. Ackerman, W.W. Danforth, D.S. Foster, and D.S. Blackwood, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1048, 1 DVD-ROM.
• Relative Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) to Sea-Level Rise; 2005, Erika S. Hammar-Klose, Elizabeth A. Pendleton, E. Robert Thieler, S. Jeffress Williams
• A Pictorial Survey of the Bedrock Beneath Western Cape Cod, Massachusetts; 2003, Hallett, B. W., Paskevich, V. F., Poppe, L. J., Brand, S. G., Blackwood, D. S., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-221, 1 CD-ROM.

Fact Sheets

• Vulnerability of U.S. National Parks to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change
• Geology of the Woods Hole area, Massachusetts- the story behind the landscape
• Habitat geology studies on and near Georges Bank, off New England
• Mapping the Sea Floor and Biological Habitats of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region
• Geology and the fishery of Georges Bank

Sound Waves

• Drilling for Submarine Ground Water at Cape Cod National Seashore - October 2005

Publications

2005

• Coastal Erosion on Cape Cod: Some Questions and Answers, 2005, Robert N. Oldale
• Comparison of diffusion- and pumped-sampling methods to monitor volatile organic compounds in ground water, Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, July 1999-December 2002, 2005, Archfield, Stacey A., LeBlanc, Denis R., U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation Report 2005-5010: 53 p.

2004

• Sidescan Sonar Imagery and Surficial Geologic Interpretation of the Sea Floor off Branford, Connecticut, 2004, L.J. Poppe, V.F. Paskevich, M.S. Moser, M.L. DiGiacomo-Cohen, and E.B. Christman, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1003, 1 CD-ROM.
• Changes in Ground-Water Quality near Two Granular-Iron Permeable Reactive Barriers in a Sand and Gravel Aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1997-2000, 2004, Savoie, Jennifer G., Kent, Douglas B., Smith, Richard L., LeBlanc, Denis R., Hubble, David W., Water-Resources Investigation 2003-4309: 84 p.

2003

• High-resolution seismic-reflection surveys in the nearshore of outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2003,Foster, David S.; Poppe, Lawrence J., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-235: 22 p.
• Reactive-transport simulation of phosphorus in the sewage plume at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2003, Parkhurst, David L., Stollenwerk, Kenneth G., Colman, John A., Water-Resources Investigation 2003-4017: v, 33 p. : ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.

2002

• Distribution and structure of Holocene sediments in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, 2002, Rendigs, R. R.; Knebel, H. J., IMAP, Sheet 56 by 39 inches (in color)
• Simulated changes in the sources of ground water for public-supply wells, ponds, streams, and coastal areas on western Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2002, Masterson, John P., Hess, Kathryn M., Walter, Donald A., LeBlanc, Denis R., Water-Resources Investigation 2002-4143: 12 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.

2001

• Cross-hole radar scanning of two vertical, permeable, reactive-iron walls at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2001, Lane, J. W., Jr., Joesten, P. K., Savoie, J. G., Water-Resources Investigation 2000-4145: 17 p.

2000

• Delineation of ground-water recharge areas, western Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2000, Masterson, J. P.; Walter, D. A., 2000, Water-Resources Investigation 2000-4000: 1 over-size sheet, scale 1:41,000 (1 inch = about 3,416 feet).

1997

• Hydrogeologic framework of western Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1997, Masterson, J. P.; Stone, B. D.; Walter, D. A.; Savoie, Jennifer, 1997, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-465, 1 over-size sheet, scale 1:50,000 (1 inch = about 4,200 feet).

1996

• Chemical and stable-isotope data from an experiment to examine temporal variability in water samples from screened wells on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1994, Reilly, T. E., LeBlanc, D. R., Bussey, K. W., Councell, T. B., Smith, R. L., Bohlke, J. K, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-734: v, 21 p.:ill., map ;28 cm.

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1990

• Maps showing the geology of the inner continental shelf, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, 1990, Oldale, Robert N.; O'Hara, Charles J., Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, 11 maps and 5 profiles on 4 sheets; 44 x 48 cm., sheets 103 x 135 cm. and smaller, folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm.

1976

• Geologic history of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1976, Geological Survey (U.S.) , Long Island Sound Research Conference, General Interest Publication (GIP), 23 p.: col. ill.; 23 cm.