The Texture of Surficial Sediments in Central Long Island Sound off Milford, Connecticut.

Authors

Roman Zajac, University of New HavenFollow
Larry J. Poppe, USGS Science Center for Coastal and Marine Geology (Woods Hole, Mass.)
B B. Taylor
Dann Blackwood, USGS Science Center for Coastal and Marine Geology (Woods Hole, Mass.)
Ralph S. Lewis, University of Connecticut - Avery Point. Long Island Sound Resource Center
Mary L. DiGiacomo-Cohen, University of Connecticut - Avery Point. Long Island Sound Resource Center

Author URLs

Professor Zajac's faculty profile

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1996

Subject: LCSH

Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.); Sediments (Geology)

Disciplines

Biology | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Marine Biology

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the grain-size distributions and associated statistical parameters of the surficial sediment samples from central Long Island Sound off Milford, Connecticut. These grain-size data, which help to ground-truth a pre-existent sidescan sonar survey (Poppe and others, 1995a; Twichell and others, in press), will eventually be used to describe the sedimentary processes active in this portion of central Long Island Sound. Other potential uses for these textural data include benthic biologic studies that evaluate faunal distributions and relate them to habitats (Zajac and others, 1995), and geochemical studies involving the distribution, transport and deposition of pollutants (Moffett and others, 1994).

Comments

U.S. Government Document.

See also these related documents:

Map Showing the Distribution of Surficial Sediments in Fishers Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

Organic Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen Concentrations in Surficial Sediments from Western Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York

Sidescan Sonar Image, Surficial Geological Interpretation, and Bathymetry of the Long Island Sea Floor off Milford, CT.:

Sidescan Sonar Image, Surficial Geologic Interpretation, and Bathymetry of the Long Island Sound Sea Floor off Hammonasset Beach State Park, Connecticut,

The Texture of Surficial Sediments in Western Long Island Sound off the Norwalk Islands, Connecticut

Repository Citation

Zajac, Roman; Poppe, Larry J.; Taylor, B B.; Blackwood, Dann; Lewis, Ralph S.; and DiGiacomo-Cohen, Mary L., "The Texture of Surficial Sediments in Central Long Island Sound off Milford, Connecticut." (1996). Biology and Environmental Science Faculty Publications. 12.
https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/biology-facpubs/12

Publisher Citation

Poppe LJ, Taylor B, Zajac R, Lewis R, Blackwood D, et al. (1996) The texture of surficial sediments in central Long Island Sound off Milford, Connecticut. U.S. Geological Survey. Denver, Colo. : U.S. Geological Survey. ISSN 2331-1258.