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Sea-Floor Character and Sedimentary Processes in the Vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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Bottom Photographs

Stations 41-61

Station  /   Lithologic Description

WH41  /   Gravel with scattered cobbles and bouldery patches. Shell debris is common; sponges, tunicates, and anthropogenic debris are present.
WH41A	WH41B	WH41C	WH41D
WH41E	WH41F
WH42   /   Gravel with some sand and shell debris. Scattered boulders, starfish, live seaweed, gravel-sized muddy clasts are present.
WH42A	WH42B	WH42C
WH43   /   Gravel with some rippled coarse sandy patches on the tidal delta at the eastern entrance to Woods Hole Passage. Mussel-shell debris is abundant; gravel-rafted seaweed and starfish are present.
WH43A	WH43B	WH43C	WH43D
WH44   /   Faintly rippled sand with abundant burrows and drifting, dead seaweed and gravel patches with abundant shell debris. Sponges, starfish, and anthropogenic debris are present.
WH44A	WH44B	WH44C
WH45  /   Gravel with scattered cobbles and boulders. Some of the gravel and cobbles are composed of muddy, bioeroded, dark-gray mud. Shells and shell debris are common. Starfish, live seaweed, gravel-sized muddy clasts are present.
WH45A	WH45B	WH45C	WH45D
WH46  /   Faintly rippled sand with patchy accumulations of dead eelgrass. Burrows are common. Shell debris (largely scallop) and sponges are present.
WH46A	WH46B	WH46C
WH47  /   Gravel with scattered cobbles in depression off Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution dock. Sides of the depression are much sandier and rippled. Shell debris and anthropogenic debris are common; starfish and sponges are present.
WH47A	WH47B	WH47C
WH48  /  Gravel with scattered cobbles. Starfish, shell debris (largely scallop), and sponges are present; tunicates are common.
WH48A	WH48B	WH48C	WH48D
WH48E	WH48F
WH49  /   Faintly rippled sand with scattered boulders and cobbles. Seaweed attaches to the boulders. Sponges and burrows are common; starfish and quahog-shell debris are present.
WH49A	WH49B	WH49C
WH49D	WH49E
WH50  /   Gravel with scattered cobbles and boulders. Shell debris is abundant; starfish, live seaweed, and sponges are present.
WH50A	WH50B	WH50C
WH50D	WH50E
WH51  /   Gravel with scattered boulders. Shell debris is abundant; starfish, live seaweed, crabs, sponges, and anthropogenic debris are present.
WH51A	WH51B	WH51C	WH51D
WH52  /   Faintly rippled and smooth, muddy sand with abundant, patchy scallop-shell debris. Burrows are common; sponges and anthropogenic debris (bottle and barrel) are present.
WH52A	WH52B	WH52C
WH53  /   Undulating, smooth, muddy sand bottom. Burrows are abundant; crabs, starfish, animal tracks, shell debris, and patchy dead seaweed are present.
WH53A	WH53B	WH53C
WH54  /   Undulating, smooth, muddy bottom. Burrows are abundant; starfish, animal tracks, shell debris, patchy dead seaweed, and anthropogenic debris are present.
WH54A	WH54B	WH54C
WH54D	WH54E
WH55  /  Undulating, smooth, muddy, sandy bottom. Burrows and shell debris are abundant; animal tracks, patchy dead seaweed, and anthropogenic debris are present.
WH55A	WH55B	WH55C	WH55D
WH56  /   Undulating, smooth, muddy bottom. Burrows are abundant; starfish, animal tracks, shell debris, and patchy dead seaweed are present.
WH56A	WH56B	WH56C
WH57  /    Undulating, smooth, muddy bottom. Burrows are abundant; starfish, animal tracks, shell debris, patchy dead seaweed, and anthropogenic debris are present.
WH57A	WH57B	WH57C
WH58  /   Current-rippled sand waves and megaripples with fine-grained gravel and shell debris concentrated in the wave troughs. Dark organic color deeper than 2 centimeters into sediment.
WH58A	WH58B	WH58C	WH58D
WH59  /   Current-rippled sand waves with gravel and shell debris concentrated in the wave troughs. Scattered boulders and cobbles protruding through the sand suggest that the sand layer is relatively thin. Gravel-rafting seaweed and dead eelgrass are common.
WH59A	WH59B	WH59C
WH61  /   Outcrops of dense, dark olive gray, bio-eroded, organic-rich mud, presumably marsh deposits. Outcrop forms a near-vertical wall with as much as 6 meters of relief; boulders encrusted with sponges and algae, gravel, and cobbles are concentrated at the base in an apparent talus pile.
WH61A	WH61B	WH61C	WH61D
WH61E	WH61F	WH61H	WH61I
WH61J	WH61K	WH61L	WH61M
WH61N	WH61O	WH61P	WH61Q
WH61R	WH61S	WH61T
WH61U	WH61V

Title | Abstract | Introduction | Setting | Methods | Bathymetry and Backscatter | Seismic Profiles | Character and Processes | Data Catalog | Acknowledgments | References | Figures | Bottom Photography | Sediment Data | Contacts