CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 5 



I INTRODUCTION 7 



1 . Background 7 



2. Study Location and Data Coverage 7 



3. Regional Setting and Sea Floor Morphology 7 



4. Sediments 10 



II POTENTIAL BORROW AREAS 13 



1. Sand Requirements and Beach Characteristics 13 



2. Borrow Areas 13 



III SUMMARY 17 



LITERATURE CITED 18 



APPENDIX 



A CORE SEDIMENT DESCRIPTIONS 19 



B GRANULOMETRIC DATA AND CUMULATIVE CURVE PLOTS 38 



TABLES 



1 Grain-size scales--soil classification 12 



2 Primary shelf sediment classes 13 



3 Siommary of potential borrow areas 15 



FIGURES 



1 Cape May ICONS study area 8 



2 Location of seismic reflection profiles and vibratory cores used 



to access submarine sand resources 9 



3 Bathymetric map of the Cape May Inner Continental Shelf 11 



4 Isopach map of the major shoals containing Holocene-age marine 



sand suitable for beach nourishment 14 



