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Hurricane Sandy washover deposits on southern Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Open-File Report 2016-1090
Barrier Island and Estuarine Wetland Physical Change Assessment Project
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161090

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Abstract

Sedimentologic and topographic data from Hurricane Sandy washover deposits were collected from southern Long Beach Island, New Jersey, in order to document changes to the barrier-island beaches, dunes, and coastal wetlands caused by Hurricane Sandy and subsequent storm events. These data will provide a baseline dataset for use in future coastal change descriptive and predictive studies and assessments. The data presented here were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Barrier Island and Estuarine Wetland Physical Change Assessment Project (http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/sandy-wetland-assessment/), which aims to assess ecological and societal vulnerability that results from long- and short-term physical changes to barrier islands and coastal wetlands. This report describes data that were collected in April 2015, approximately 2½ years after Hurricane Sandy’s landfall on October 29, 2012. During the field campaign, washover deposits were photographed and described, and sediment cores, sediment samples, and surface-elevation data were collected. Data collected during this study, including sample locations and elevations, core photographs, computed tomography scans, descriptive core logs, sediment grain-size data, and accompanying Federal Geographic Data Committee metadata, are available in the associated U.S. Geological Survey data release (Bishop and others, 2016; http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7PK0D7S).

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Bishop, J.M., Richmond, B.R., Zaremba, N.J., Lunghino, B.D., and Kane, H.K., 2016, Hurricane Sandy washover deposits on southern Long Beach Island, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1090, 14 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161090.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Abstract
  • Introduction 
  • Methods
  • Results 
  • References Cited
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Hurricane Sandy washover deposits on southern Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2016-1090
DOI 10.3133/ofr20161090
Year Published 2016
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Description Report: vi, 21 p.; Data Release
Country United States
State New Jersey
Other Geospatial Long Beach Island
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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