CONTENTS 



Page 



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



I INTRODUCTION .... 7 



1. Background and Scope 7 



2. Geographic and Geologic Setting 8 



3. Previous Studies 8 



II EQUIPMENT AND FIELD AND LABORATORY PROCEDURES 16 



1. Geographic Positioning System 16 



2. Seismic Reflection Profiling 16 



3. Coring Equipment 17 



4. Data Collection Planning 19 



5. Processing of Data 20 



III SAND DEPOSITS 22 



1. Introduction 22 



2. Fairport Harbor 23 



3. Lorain - Vermilion 26 



4. Cedar Point 30 



5 . Maumee Bay 30 



IV SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 33 



LITERATURE CITED 35 



APPENDIX 



A CORE SEDIMENT DESCRIPTIONS 37 



B GRANULOMETRIC DATA AND CUMULATIVE CURVE PLOTS 67 



TABLES 



1 Grain-size scales-soil classification 21 



2 Sand volume summary 22 



FIGURES 



1 Lake Erie study area ' 



2 Trackline location map, Ohio-Pennsylvania State line to east of 



Fairport Harbor 9 



3 Trackline location map. East of Fairport Harbor to Northeast 



Yacht Club 10 



4 Trackline location map. Northeast Yacht Club to Avon Point 11 



5 Trackline location map, Avon Point to Vermilion 12 



6 Trackline location map, Vermilion to Cedar Point 13 



7 Trackline location map. Cedar Point to Long Beach 14 



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