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Fact-Sheets: briefings on Coastal and Marine Geology Issues


  • El NiŅo Storms Erode Beaches on Monterey Bay, California
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 26-00 (pdf)

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  • El NiŅo flooding in the San Francisco Bay area, 1997-1998
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 175-99 (pdf)

  • Geology of Shelf-Edge Habitats of the West Florida Shelf
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 109-99

  • Oculina Bank - Geology of a Deep-Water Coral Reef Habitat off Florida
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 108-99

  • Mapping the Sea Floor and Biological Habitats of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 78-98

  • Contaminated-Sediment Database Development and Assessment in Boston Harbor
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 78-99

  • Contaminants and Marine Geology in the New York Bight: Modern Sediment Dynamics and a Legacy for the Future
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 114-99

  • Contaminant Distribution and Accumulation in Sediments of Long Island Sound: Initial Results
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 113-99

  • Mapping the Sea Floor Geology Offshore of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 133-98

  • Modern and Historical Bathymetry of Florida Bay
    USGS Fact Sheet FS-096-98

  • Limited Sand Resources for Eroding Beaches
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 97-069

  • The Chesapeake Bay: Geologic Product of Rising Sea Level
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 102-98

  • Popular Beach Disappears Underwater in Huge Coastal Landslide - Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 020-98

  • The Chesapeake Bay Bolide Impact: A New View of Coastal Plain Evolution
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 49-98

  • Predicting the Long-Term Fate of Sediments and Contaminants in Massachusetts Bay
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 172-97

  • Metal Concentrations in Sediments of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay Document Environmental Change
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 150-97

  • Sedimentary Environments in Long Island Sound: A Guide to Sea-Floor Management in a Large Urbanized Estuary
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 41-98

  • Predicting the effects of Boston's new sewage outfall tunnel
    USGS Fact Sheet FS 185-97

  • Crater Lake National Park: Presently Tranquil

  • Evolution and History of Incised Valleys: The Mobile Bay Model

  • Whales and Walrus: Tillers of the Seafloor

  • The Escanaba Trough of Gorda Ridge: A Laboratory for Mineral-forming Processes

  • Seafloor Studies of Mamala Bay, Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Natural Disasters: Forecasting Economic and Life Losses

  • Florida Wetlands

  • Investigating Climate Change of Western North America

  • Sand and Gravel Resources of Puerto Rico

  • Coastal Erosion of Southern Lake Michigan

  • Effects of Major Storms on Pacific Islands

  • High-Energy Storms Shape Puerto Rico

  • Coastal Wetlands and Sediments of the San Francisco Bay System

  • Geology and Human Activity in the Florida Keys

  • Gas (Methane) Hydrates -- A New Frontier

  • Louisiana's Barrier Islands: A Vanishing Resource

  • Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary - Geological Processes and Framework

  • The Lake Pontchartrain Basin: Louisiana's Troubled Urban Estuary

  • Louisiana Coastal Wetlands: A Resource At Risk

  • Contaminant Transport in Massachusetts Bay

  • Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

  • The Legacy of Contaminated Sediments in Boston Harbor

  • Hurricane Impacts on the Coastal Environment

  • Antarctica - The Dynamic Heart of It All

  • Geology and the Fishery of Georges Bank,

  • Sewage Contamination of the Deep-Sea Floor Near the 106-Mile Dumpsite off New Jersey

  • Seafloor Images Refine Petroleum Exploration Models

  • Lake Baikal - A Touchstone for Global Change and Rift Studies

  • Satelllite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World

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