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High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Nahant to Gloucester, Massachusetts

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Title Page

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Maps
Data Collection
and Processing
Geologic Interpretation
References
Acknowledgments

Appendices

Geographic Information
System
Sediment Texture
Bottom Photographs
Seismic Profiles

References Cited

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