CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI). ... 6 



SYMBOLS AND DEFINITIONS 7 



I INTRODUCTION 9 



II BACKGROUND 9 



III MEASUREMENT PROCEDURE 10 



1. Inner Continental Shelf Profiles 10 



2. Shore-Parallel Contours 12 



IV RESULTS 12 



1. Shoreface Types , 12 



2. Description of Shelf Profiles 16 



3. Limit Depth of Shore-Parallel Contours 18 



V DISCUSSION 18 



Profile Characteristics 18 



VI GEOMETRIC LIMIT DEPTH OF THE SHOREFACE 25 



VII SUMMARY 27 



LITERATURE CITED 29 



APPENDIX 



A PROFILE LOCATIONS 31 



B DATA COLLECTION SCHEME 35 



C INNER CONTINENTAL SHELF PROFILES 37 



D PROFILE FITTING PROCEDURE 87 



E A PROGRAMING LANGUAGE (APL) PROGRAM TO FIT A 



CURVE TO A PROFILE 92 



TABLES 



1 Geometric characteristics of Inner Continental Shelf 



profiles for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. , . 19 



2 Shoreface-ramp depths on Inner Continental Shelf profiles. . . 20 



