USGS OFR 2006-1357: Sea-Floor Character and Surface Processes in the Vicinity of Quicks Hole, Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts, Bottom Photos (1-20)

Bottom Photographs

Stations 1-20

Figure 14. Map showing the station locations used to verify the acoustic data with bottom sampling and photography during the RAFAEL 05007 cruise.

Station / Lithologic Description

QH1 / Muddy sand with scattered boulders, shell debris, seaweed, and yellow sponges. Burrows are common; a thin layer of mud coats much of the bottom.
PICT0067	PICT0068	PICT0069	PICT0070
QH2 / Muddy sand with scattered mounds. Burrows are common; scattered patches of seaweed and shell debris are present.
PICT0074	PICT0075	PICT0076	PICT0077
QH3 / Faintly rippled sand with some gravel (gravel is probably shells). Amphipod tubes, worm burrows, some shell fragments and fish are present.
PICT0063	PICT0064	PICT0065	PICT0066
QH4 / Smooth sea floor of muddy sand with numerous burrows and burrowing anemones. Drift across station appeared to cross a depression (trench?) that contained abundant shell fragments and drifting seaweed. Larger burrows are present along the edges of the depression.
PICT0078	PICT0079	PICT0080	PICT0081
QH5 / Smooth sea floor of muddy sand with numerous burrows (some lobster?). Drift across station appeared to cross a depression that contained abundant shell fragments and drifting seaweed. Larger burrows are present along the edges of the depression.
PICT0082	PICT0083	PICT0084
QH6 / Muddy sea floor with burrows, sea urchins, tracks, and burrowing sea anemones.
PICT0144	PICT0145	PICT0146	PICT0147
PICT0148	PICT0149
QH7 / Muddy undulating bottom with burrows and tracks. Some coarse sand mixed with the finer sediment.
PICT0150	PICT0152
QH8 / Boulder with abundant seaweed and intervening patches of sand.
PICT0153	PICT0154	PICT0155	PICT0156
PICT0157	PICT0158
QH9 / Muddy undulating bottom with burrows, tracks, and patches of shell debris.
PICT0141	PICT0142	PICT0143
QH10 / Muddy flat undulating bottom with burrows, tracks, and scattered seaweed.
PICT0159	PICT0160	PICT0161	PICT0162
QH11 / gravelly sand with scattered cobbles. Seaweed, lobsters and traps, kelp, and moon snail casings are present.
PICT0136	PICT0137	PICT0138	PICT0139
PICT0140
QH12 / Sand with shell debris. Sponges, razor clam shells, skate, and moon snail casings are present.
PICT0133	PICT0134	PICT0135
QH13 / Coarse sand with some gravel and shell debris (razor clam). Skates, sea urchins, a line, and moon snail casings are present.
PICT0167	PICT0168	PICT0169	PICT0170
PICT0171	PICT0172
QH14 / Gravelly sand with shell debris (quahog and razor clam). Skate and skate egg casings are present.
PICT0173	PICT0174	PICT0175	PICT0176
QH15 / Sand with shell debris (quahog and razor clam). Skate and skate egg casings are present.
PICT0177	PICT0178	PICT0179	PICT0180
QH16 / Sand with shell debris and scattered ahermatypic corals and seaweed.
PICT0181	PICT0182	PICT0183
QH17 / Undulating bottom of faintly rippled muddy sand. Burrows are common; seaweed and shell debris are present.
PICT0194	PICT0195	PICT0196
QH18 / Boulders overgrown with seaweed. Patches of sand and gravel occur between the boulders.
PICT0198	PICT0199	PICT0200	PICT0201
QH19 / Muddy sand with burrows, tracks, and sparse seaweed.
PICT0202	PICT0203	PICT0204	PICT0205
QH20 / Muddy sand with burrows, shell debris, and widely spaced boulders. Whelk, kelp, and green and red seaweed are present.
PICT0187	PICT0188	PICT0189	PICT0190

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U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1357

Sea-Floor Character and Surface Processes in the Vicinity of Quicks Hole, Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts

Bottom Photographs

Stations 1-20

Station / Lithologic Description