Initial results of high-resolution sea-floor mapping offshore of the New York - New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar

Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 243-262

  Schwab, W C ^a   Allison, M A ^b   Corso, W ^c,d   Lotto, L L ^b   Butman, B ^a   Buchholtz Ten Brink, M ^a   Denny, J F ^a   Danforth, W W ^a   Foster, D S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c US Army Corps of Engineers New York District   (United States)

^d New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium   (United States)

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