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Publications and References

Below is a list of selected USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program publications for the Channel Islands. To search for additional publications, please visit the USGS Publications Warehouse.

• Holocene Evolution of the Southern Washington and Northern Oregon Shelf and Coast: Geologic Discussion and GIS Data Release: 2001, Twichell, D.C, Cross, V.A., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-076, 1 CD-ROM, 28 p.

• Sidescan-sonar imagery, surface sediment samples, and surficial geologic interpretation of the southwestern Washington inner continental shelf based on data collected during Corliss cruises 97007 and 98014: 2000, Twichell, D.C., Cross, V.A., and Parolski, K.F., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-167, map scale 1:12,000, CD-ROM, 28 p.

• Non-navigational GRIDDED BATHYMETRY DATA Washington-Oregon Coast: 1926-1998 Data release and description of methods: 2000, Gibbs, A.E., Buijsman, M.C., and Sherwood, C.R., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-448, 1 CD-ROM

• Archive of seismic-reflection data collected aboard RV CORLISS cruise CRLS98014 in the Columbia River Estuary, Willapa Bay and off Southern Washington Inner Continental Shelf: 1999, Cross, V.A., Twichell, D.C, and Parolski, K.F., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-0307, 3 CD-ROMs.

• Archive of boomer seismic-reflection data collected aboard RV CORLISS cruise CRLS97007 off northern Oregon and southern Washington inner continental shelf: 1999, Cross, V. A., Twichell, D. C., Parolski, K. F., and Harrison, S. E., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-351, 2 CD-ROMs, v.

Fact Sheets

• Helping Coastal Communities at Risk from Tsunamis - The Role of U.S. Geological Survey Research

Sound Waves

• Southwest Washington Coastal Erosion Workshop 2000, January 2001
• Bathymetric Data from Waverunners, September 1999

Publications

2003

• Cascadia Tsunami Deposit Database, 2003, Peters, R., Jaffe, B., Gelfenbaum, G. and Peterson, C., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-013

2001

• Holocene Evolution of the Southern Washington and Northern Oregon Shelf and Coast: Geologic Discussion and GIS Data Release, 2001, Twichell, D.C, Cross, V.A., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 01-076

• Using a GIS to model the Late Holocene evolution of the southwest Washington Shelf and coastal system, 2001, Cross, V.A., Twichell, D.C., Coast GIS '01, Program with Abstracts, [abs.]

• The Southwest Washington Shelf--is it a source for beach sand?: 2001, Twichell, D.C., Cross, V.A., and Ruggiero, P., Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2001, v. 33, no. 6, p. A339, [abs.]

1999

• The Washington and Oregon Mid-Shelf Silt Deposit and Its Relation to the late Holocene Columbia River Sediment Budget, 1999, Wolf, S. C., Nelson, H., Hamer, M.R., Dunhill, G., Phillips, R.L., U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-173.

• Use of a GIS for planning and conducting nearshore cruise operations off southern Washington and northern Oregon: 1999, Cross, V. A. and Twichell, D. C., Coastal GeoTools '99, [abs.]

1998

• At ocean's edge; coastal change in Southwest Washington, 1998, Wessells, S. M., Gelfenbaum, Guy, Kaminsky, George, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-491