GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry, colored by backscatter intensity, of the sea floor of the Hudson Shelf Valley (12-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84)

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: backscatter intensity; shaded-relief bathymetry; GeoTIFF image; sea floor mapping; multibeam; Simrad EM1000; Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed; WHCMSC field activity 1996-043-FA; WHCMSC field activity 1998-015-FA; WHCMSC field activity 2000-015-FA; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC); Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP); U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS); University of New Brunswick (UNB); USGS Open-File Report 03-372; geoscientificInformation; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; oceans; Hudson Shelf Valley; New York Bight; mid-Atlantic Bight; Middle Atlantic Bight; New York; New Jersey; Hudson Canyon; North Atlantic Ocean; Hudson; Long Valley; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/0c1a8e82-89dd-45ec-92a3-a04f6d4d6aa8

The Hudson Shelf Valley is the submerged seaward extension of the ancestral Hudson River drainage system and is the largest physiographic feature on the Middle Atlantic continental shelf. The valley begins offshore of New York and New Jersey at about 30-meter (m) water depth, runs southerly and then...