Coastal and Marine Geology Program Internet Map Server:
Mississippi Fan

Publications and References

Below is a list of selected USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program publications for the Mississippi Fan region Internet Map Server.  To search for additional publications, please visit the Woods Hole Science Center's (WHSC) Publications website or the USGS Publications Warehouse.

Digital Data

• SeaMARC1A sidescan mosaic, cores and depositional interpretation of the Mississippi Fan: ArcView GIS Data Release, 2001, Paskevich, V.F., Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-352, 1 CD-ROM.

• Gulf of Mexico GLORIA sidescan sonar Geologic Interpretation: ArcView Data Coverages, 2000, V.F. Paskevich, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-019, 1 CD-ROM.

• Atlas of GLORIA Sidescan-Sonar Imagery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States: EEZ-View, 1997, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-540, 1 CD-ROM.

• GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Field Data and Navigation Data Collected in the Gulf of Mexico During R/V FARNELLA Cruises in 1982 and 1985, 1996, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-707, 1 CD-ROM.

• Digital Mosaics of the GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Data of the Gulf of Mexico, 1996, V.F. Paskevich, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-657, 1 CD-ROM.

• GLORIA Gulf of Mexico, 1988, GLORIA Data: Gulf of Mexico, Office of Energy and Marine Geology, 1 CD-ROM.

• CD-ROM Atlas of the Deepwater Parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Caribbean Sea , 1993, D.C. Twichell and C.F. Polloni, U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-15, 1 CD-ROM

Fact Sheets

• Seafloor Images Refine Petroleum Exploration Models

Publications

• Geology of the United States Seafloor: The View from GLORIA, 1996, Gardner, J.V., Field, M.E., Twichell, D.C. editors, Cambridge University Press, 371p.

• Breaching the levee of a channel on the Mississippi Fan, 1996, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Kenyon, N.H., and Lee, H.J.,  in Gardner, J.V., Field, M.E., and Twichell, D.C., editors, Geology of the U.S. Seafloor: The view from GLORIA, Cambridge Univ. Press (Dir. appr., May, 93 - 29 ms pages).

• Geometry of sandy deposits at the distal edge of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico, 1995, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., and Kenyon, N.H.,  in Pickering, K.T., et al., eds., An Atlas of Deep-Water Systems, Turbidite System Architectural Style Chapman and Hall, Ltd, London, UK.

• Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Sedimentation on the distal Mississippi fan: 1993, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Kenyon, N.H., Nelson, C.H., and Lee, H.J., American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 77, p. 529 (Abstract).

• Influence of sediment supply and slope stability on depositional style of present-day Mississippi margin turbidite systems: 1993, Nelson, C.H., Twichell, D.C., and Schwab, W.C., American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 77, p. 525 (Abstract).

• Application of sidescan sonar to geological sea floor mapping: 1993, Twichell, D.C. and O'Brien, T.F., Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, v. 93, no. 4, pt. 2, p. 2339 (Abstract).

• Hierarchy of depositional features on the Mississippi Fan, a predictive tool for deep-sea fan studies: 1993, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., and Kenyon, N.H., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A-181 (Abstract).

• The relation between sidescan-sonar imagery and sediment physical properties: A comparison of two deep-sea fan systems: 1993,  Lee, H.J., Schwab, W.C., Kayen, R.E., Edwards, B.D., Twichell, D.C., Field, M.E., and Gardner, J.V., Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, Acoustic Classification and Mapping of the Seabed, v. 15, pt. 2, p. 319-326.

• Sediment mass transport mechanisms and deposition on the distal Mississippi Fan: 1993, Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Winters, W.J., Lee, H.J., McArthur, W.J., Nelson, C.H., DaSilva, J.A., and Kenyon, N.H., Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (Abstract)  

• Characteristics of a sandy depositional lobe on the outer Mississippi Fan from SeaMARC IA sidescan sonar images: 1992, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., Geology, v. 20, p. 689-692.

• Classification of turbidite systems: A suggestion for an old problem: 1992, Nelson, C.H., O'Connell, S., Maldonado, A., Twichell, D.C., and Pulham, A., American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (Abstract).

• Ground truthing the distal Mississippi Fan with SeaMARC images and cores: What happens at the end of the pipe: 1992, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., Kenyon, N.H., O'Brien, T.F., and Danforth, W.W.,  USGS research on energy resources: Program and Abstracts: US Geological Survey Circular 1074, p. 77 (Abstract).

• Late Pleistocene sedimentation on the distal Mississippi Fan: Mass-transport mechanisms: 1992, Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Lee. H.J., Nelson, C.H., and Kenyon, N.H., American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (Abstract).

• Late Pleistocene turbidite sand beds and chaotic silt beds in the channelized distal outer fan lobes of Mississippi Fan: 1992, Nelson, C.H., Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., Geology, v. 20, p. 693-696.

• Sand lobes on the Mississippi fan: 1992, Kenyon, N.H., Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Nelson, C.H.,  The Geological Society British Sedimentological Research Group, Abstracts with Programs (Abstract).

• Depositional processes on the Mississippi Fan: sedimentology and transport mechanisms: 1991, Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 5, p. A386 (Abstract).

• Depositional processes on the Mississippi Fan: sidescan sonar images: 1991, Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H., Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 5, p. A386. (Abstract)

• Comparison of GLORIA and SeaMARC I sidescan sonar images on the lower Mississippi Fan, eastern Gulf of Mexico: 1990, Twichell, D.C. and O'Connell, S., American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74, p. 781. (Abstract)

• Facies analysis based on seismic-reflection and sidescan sonar results: 1990, Twichell, D.C., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, no. 2, p. 75 (Abstract).

• EEZ-Scan 85 Scientific Staff, 1987, Atlas of the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone, Gulf of Mexico and eastern Caribbean areas: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations I-1864-A, 104 p., scale 1:500,000.