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January 1, 1994

Deep structure beneath Lake Ontario: Crustal-scale Grenville subdivisions Deep structure beneath Lake Ontario: Crustal-scale Grenville subdivisions

Lake Ontario marine seismic data reveal major Grenville crustal subdivisions beneath central and southern Lake Ontario separated by interpreted shear zones that extend to the lower crust. A shear zone bounded transition between the Elzevir and Frontenac terranes exposed north of Lake Ontario is linked to a seismically defined shear zone beneath central Lake Ontario by prominent...

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D. A. Forsyth, Bernd Milkereit, Colin A. Zelt, D. J. White, R. M. Easton, Deborah R. Hutchinson

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

January 1, 1994

A crisis in waste management, economic vitality, and a coastal marine environment: Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay A crisis in waste management, economic vitality, and a coastal marine environment: Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay

Discharge of sewage sludge and effluent from 43 communities in the greater Boston metropolitan area has helped make the harbor one of the most polluted in the nation. As part of a court-mandated plan to end pollution of the harbor, effluent will no longer be discharged into the harbor, but instead, by 1995 it will be discharged into Massachusetts Bay through a record-long 15.34 km tunnel...

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F.T. Manheim, B. Butman

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

January 1, 1994

Lake Michigan's late Quaternary limnological and climate history from ostracode, oxygen isotope, and magnetic susceptibility Lake Michigan's late Quaternary limnological and climate history from ostracode, oxygen isotope, and magnetic susceptibility

The limnology of Lake Michigan has changed dramatically since the late Pleistocene in response to the expansion and contraction of continental glaciers, to differential isostatic rebound, and to climate change. The lake sediment's stratigraphic trends, magnetic susceptibility, δ18O, and ostracode species abundance ratios provide criteria to identify the lake's response to glacial ice and...

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Richard M. Forester, Steven M. Colman, Richard L. Reynolds, Loyd D. Keigwin

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

January 1, 1994

Indicators of sewage contamination in sediments beneath a deep-ocean dump site off New York Indicators of sewage contamination in sediments beneath a deep-ocean dump site off New York

The world's largest discharge of municipal sewage sludge to surface waters of the deep sea has caused measurable changes in the concentration of sludge indicators in sea-floor sediments, in a spatial pattern which agrees with the predictions of a recent sludge deposition model. Silver, linear alkylbenzenes, coprostanol, and spores of the bacterium Clostridium perfringens, in bottom...

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Michael H. Bothner, H. Takada, I.T. Knight, R. T. Hill, B. Butman, J.W. Farrington, R.R. Colwell, J. F. Grassle

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

January 1, 1994

Habitat impacts of offshore drilling, eastern Gulf of Mexico Habitat impacts of offshore drilling, eastern Gulf of Mexico

In this survey six offshore exploratory drill sites in a variety of environments and water depths were examined using a small research submersible. Sites varied from locations off northwest Florida to as far west as offshore Alabama. Water depths ranged from 21 m (70 ft) to 149 m (489 ft), and bottom sediments ranged from carbonate mud to Shelly quartz sand and silt to hard limestone...

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Eugene A. Shinn, Barbara H. Lidz, Christopher D. Reich

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

January 1, 1994

Geophysical database of the East Coast of the United States northern Atlantic margin: Cross sections and gridded database (Georges Bank Basin, Long Island Platform, and Baltimore Canyon Trough) Geophysical database of the East Coast of the United States northern Atlantic margin: Cross sections and gridded database (Georges Bank Basin, Long Island Platform, and Baltimore Canyon Trough)

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Kim D. Klitgord, C. W. Poag, C. M. Schneider, L. North

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

December 31, 1993

Mobility of radioisotopes in marine surface sediments Mobility of radioisotopes in marine surface sediments

Transport of a radioisotope in a sediment-water system can be retarded by sorption of the isotope to solid; which is controlled by the affinity of the radioisotope for the sediment particles. In order to study trace metal and ra- dionuclide mobility on the sea floor, the following measurements were carried out: (1)effective diffusion rates in sediments in the laboratory and on the sea...

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Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink, P. H. Santschi

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

December 31, 1993

Glaciers Glaciers

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R. J. Williams

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

December 31, 1993

Regional stratigraphic framework of surficial sediments and bedrock beneath Lake Ontario Regional stratigraphic framework of surficial sediments and bedrock beneath Lake Ontario

Approximately 2550 km of single-channel high-resolution seismic reflection profiles have been interpreted and calibrated with lithological and geochronological information from four representative piston cores and one grab sample to provide a regional stratigraphie framework for the subbottom deposits of Lake Ontario. Five units overlying Paleozoic bedrock were identified and mapped...

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D. R. Hutchinson, C.F. Lewis, G. Hund

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

December 31, 1993

Ground water discharge and the related nutrient and trace metal fluxes into Quincy bay, Massachusetts Ground water discharge and the related nutrient and trace metal fluxes into Quincy bay, Massachusetts

Measurement of the rate and direction of ground water flow beneath Wollaston Beach, Quincy, Massachusetts by use of a heat-pulsing flowmeter shows a mean velocity in the bulk sediment of 40 cm d−1. The estimated total discharge of ground water into Quincy Bay during October 1990 was 1324–2177 m3 d−1, a relatively low ground water discharge rate. The tides have only a moderate effect on...

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Lawrence J. Poppe, A.M. Moffett

Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

December 31, 1993