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New York Bight Inner-Continental Shelf

Publications and References

Below is a list of selected USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program publications for the New York Bight study.  To search for additional publications, please visit the Woods Hole Science Center's (WHSC) Publications website or the USGS Publications Warehouse.

• High-Resolution Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the New York Bight Continental Shelf; 2002, Schwab, W.C., Denny, J.F., Foster, D.S., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A., Uchupi, E., Danforth, W.W., Swift, B.A., Thieler, E.R., and Butman, B., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-152, 1 DVD-ROM.
• Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Database for the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico Coasts, 2001, Erika S. Hammar-Klose and E. Robert Thieler, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-68, 1 CD-ROM
• USGS East Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures, Database, and Georeferenced Displays, 2000, L.J. Poppe and C.F. Polloni, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-358

Fact Sheets

• The USGS Role in Mapping the Nation's Submerged Lands
• Sand distribution on the inner shelf south of Long Island, New York
• Mapping the sea floor of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS) offshore of New York City
• National assessment of coastal vulnerability to future sea-level rise
• Contaminants and marine geology in the New York Bight: modern sediment dynamics and a legacy for the future
• Mapping the Sea Floor Geology Offshore of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area
• Contaminant distribution and accumulation in sediments of Long Island Sound - initial results

Publications

• Contaminated Sediments Database for Long Island Sound and the New York Bight, 2003, Mecray, E.L., Reid, J.M., Hastings, M.E., and Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-241.
• Photographs of the sea floor offshore of New York and New Jersey, 2003, Butman, B., Gutierrez, B.T., Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., Schwab, W.C., Blackwood, D.S., and Middleton, T.J., 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 01-470, DVD-ROM. ONLINE
• Topography, shaded relief, and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Shelf Valley, offshore of New York, 2003, Butman, B., Middleton, T.J., Thieler, E.R., and Schwab, W.C.,2003, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 03-372, DVD-ROM.
• Seafloor Characterization Offshore of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area using Sidescan-Sonar, 2000, Schwab, W.C., Denny, J.F., Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., Swift, B.A., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A., Thieler, E.R. and Hill, J.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-295
• Sea-Floor Sediment Distribution Off Southern Long Island, New York, 2000,  Schwab, W.C., Thieler, E.R., Denny, J.F., Danforth, W.W., and Hill, J.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-243
• Stratigraphic Framework Maps of the Nearshore Area of Southern Long Island from Fire Island to Montauk Point, New York, 1999, Foster, D.S., Swift, B.A. and Schwab, W.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-559.
• Multibeam Bathymetric and Backscatter Maps of the Upper Hudson Shelf Valley and Adjacent Shelf, Offshore of New York,1998, Bradford Butman, William W. Danforth, William C. Schwab, and Marilyn Buchholtz ten Brink, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-616