Preliminary summary of the 1976 Atlantic Margin Coring Project of the U.S. Geological Survey

Hathaway, John Cummins; Schlee, J. J.; Poag, C. W.; Valentine, P. C.; Weed, E. G. A.; Bothner, M. H.; Kohout, F. A.; Manheim, F. T.; Schloam, R.; Miller, R. E.; Schultz, D. M.

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The U.S. Geological Survey Atlantic Margin Coring Project, 1976, a 60-day expedition to obtain core samples by drilling beneath the floor of the Continental Shelf and Slope of the eastern United States, was carried out in July, August, and September 1976 aboard D/V GLOMAR CONCEPTION. The coring penetrated as much as 310 meters below the sea floor at 19 sites along the continental margin from Georgia to Georges Bank off New England in water depths ranging from 20 to 300 meters; 1,020 meters of material were recovered in 380 cores, ranging in age from Late Cretaceous to Holocene. One of the major findings was the discovery of relatively fresh water (salinities less than 3 parts per thousand) extending beneath the Continental Shelf as much as 60 nautical miles seaward from the New Jersey coast. Water of about 1 part per thousand salinity was found beneath the shelf more than 7 nautical miles off Ocean City, Maryland and Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey. Analyses for light hydrocarbons in the cores show the highest concentrations (as much as 412,000 ppm) at sites in water depth greater than 200 meters (the shelf-slope break), principally in Pleistocene sediments, although methane concentrations greater than 400,000 ppm also were found in Miocene sediments at one site near the shelf edge. (Woodard-USGS)

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Hathaway, John Cummins; Schlee, J. J.; Poag, C. W.; Valentine, P. C.; Weed, E. G. A.; Bothner, M. H.; Kohout, F. A.; Manheim, F. T.; Schloam, R.; Miller, R. E.; Schultz, D. M.

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217 p. :ill., maps, fold. logs (in slipcase) ;30 cm.

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Open-File Report

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Preliminary summary of the 1976 Atlantic Margin Coring Project of the U.S. Geological Survey; 1976; OFR; 76-844; Hathaway, John Cummins; Schlee, J. J.; Poag, C. W.; Valentine, P. C.; Weed, E. G. A.; Bothner, M. H.; Kohout, F. A.; Manheim, F. T.; Schloam, R.; Miller, R. E.; Schultz, D. M.