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CURRENT AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT STUDIES ON GEORGES BANK



Description: A series of studies to assess environmental hazards to petroleum development in the Georges Bank and New England Shelf region. Long-term observations of currents and near-bottom processes to document the frequency and processes of near-bottom sediment transport along the U.S. east coast continental margin.

Duration: 1975-1982

USGS PIs: B. Butman and M. Noble

Collaborators: Bureau of Land Management (now Minerals Management Service)

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 75004, 75015, 75020, 75031, 76006, 76008, 76031, 76049, 76050, 77009 , 77032 , 78001 , 78010, 78031, 78035, 79004, 79021, 79035, 79037, 80001, 80009, 80030, 80034, 82011, 82015


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Links to the Data

Basic Sampling Interval Data access via OPeNDAP
Hourly Averaged Data

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