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1. REPORT NUMBER 



MR 79-3 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



4. TITLE (end Subtitle) 



SAND RESOURCES OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN 



5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfs; 



Edward P. Meisburger, S. Jeffress Williams, 

 Dennis A. Prins 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfsJ 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-GE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



D31466 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



July 1979 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



61 --. ■-; ,.■ ■ 



14. MONITORING AGENCY NAME a ADDRESSf// di//oren( Iroai ControUlr.g Oltlce) 



15. SECURITY CLASS, (ol thia report) 



UNCLASSIFIED 



16. DISTRIBUTION ST ATEMENT fo/ th/s ReporO 



Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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18. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 



19. KEY WORDS (Continue < 



Geomorphology 

 Lake Michigan 



aamy and identify by block nutnber) 



Sand resources 

 Sediments 



Seismic reflectic 



20. ABSTRACT fCant£BU« an r9veram aMa tf n a a e aa^ ry atrd Identity by block number) 



About 2,072 square kilometers (800 square miles) of the eastern shore of 

 Lake Michigan between Manistee, Michigan, and Bums Harbor, Indiana, was sur- 

 veyed to assess potential sand and gravel resources. The survey data consist 

 of 915 kilometers (569 miles) of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, 

 side-scan sonar records, and 93 cores a maximum of 6.1 meters (20 feet) long. 

 Bathymetric survey limits are the -3.7-meter (-12 feet) contour lakeward to 

 about the -37-meter (-120 feet) contour. The most common sediment types found 

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