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We would like eventually to develop such energy spectra for all the characteristic pro- 

 files of the continental shelf. We would like to do this on a more detailed basis, because all 

 these profiles have been drawn from the navigation charts. We realize that the details will be 

 much more interesting when we are able to contour the smooth- sheets. However, it will take a 

 great many man-hours to contour many smooth-sheets, and the project, as set up, does not 

 provide for that much work. 



If, somehow, we can get that type of work done, the study will be very much improved. 

 We think there will possibly be a correlation between the sediments, the minor bathymetry of 

 the submerged deltaic plain, and groups of the bottom living organisms. This is a fertile field 

 for investigation from the scientific standpoint, with the hope that something will result in the 

 applied phase.* We have a project planned for which we are going to try to get support, to 

 enable a biologist to study those details in an area where we are now getting samples, fatho- 

 grams, and other information in another Navy project. 



With the data on energy that we now have and our knowledge of the shorelines, we made 

 this diagram map (Fig. 13) of the Gulf. Starting in 1951, I made a typical geomorphic study of 

 the shorelines of the Gulf of Mexico and also a series of maps showing the different types. 

 Fifty-eight types were found; nine of these were new. It was necessary to enlarge the genetic- 

 geomorphic classification tables to accommodate the new types and listings. 



Figure 13. 



♦Correlation between nninor bathymetry, sediments and bottom organisms are good in the first 

 NW gulf area surveyed in detail by an oil company. 



