Isopach grid of the Quaternary sediment thickness, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q0thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84)

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2013
• Subjects: isopach; subbottom; boomer; chirp; seismic stratigraphy; geologic framework; Top of Pliocene; depth; grid; seafloor mapping; marine geology; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center; WHCMSC; field activity serial number 1999-045-FA; field activity serial number 2001-005-FA; field activity serial number 2001-013-FA; field activity serial number 2002-012-FA; field activity serial number 2002-013-FA; field activity serial number 2002-015-FA; field activity serial number 2003-003-FA; field activity serial number 2003-005-FA; field activity serial number 2003-042-FA; field activity serial number 2004-003-FA; field activity serial number 2004-005-FA; field activity serial number 2004-006-FA; interpretation; oceans; geoscientificInformation; North Carolina; NC; Outer Banks; inner shelf; back barrier; Albemarle Sound; Pamlico Sound; Duck; Cape Hatteras; United States; North America; North Atlantic; Barrier Island; Barrier Islands; Cape Lookout; False Cape; Knudsen; Lookout; Van Veen
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/6b4031ee-2cf5-408b-809c-bb31b09f65c0

The northeastern North Carolina coastal system, from False Cape, Virginia, to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, has been studied by a cooperative research program that mapped the Quaternary geologic framework of the estuaries, barrier islands, and inner continental shelf. This information provides a bas...