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U.S. Gulf of Mexico region

Publications and References

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

Digital Data

• GIS of selected geophysical and core data in the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope collected by the U.S. Geological Survey; 2007, David C. Twichell, VeeAnn A. Cross, Valerie F. Paskevich, Deborah R. Hutchinson, William J. Winters, and Patrick E. Hart, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1071

• The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico; 2004, Tara L. Miller, Robert A. Morton, Asbury H. Sallenger, Laura J. Moore, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1089

• 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

• 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.

• GLORIA Sidescan Sonar Field Data and Navigation Data Collected Off Puerto Rico in 1985 and the Eastern United States in 1987, 1998, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-619, 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.

• GLORIA Imagery and Bathymetry from the U.S. EEZ off Washington, Oregon, and California, 1991, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-396, 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

• Vulnerability of U.S. National Parks to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Change

• National assessment of coastal vulnerability to future sea-level rise

• Wetland Subsidence, Fault Reactivation, and Hydrocarbon Production in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region

• 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.

• Sea-level Rise and Coastal Forests on the Gulf of Mexico, 1999, Kimberlyn Williams, Zuleika S. Pinzon, Richard P. Stumpf, and Ellen A. Raabe, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-441. (online PDF report)

• EEZ-Scan 87 Scientific Staff, 1991, Atlas of the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone Atlantic Continental Margin: U. S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-2054, 174p.

• EEZ-Scan 84 Scientific Staff, 1986, Atlas of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, Western Conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series I-1792, 152p., scale 1:500,000.

• 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.