CONTENTS 



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



I INTRODUCTION 7 



II SETTING 7 



III POTENTIAL BORROW AREAS 18 



IV SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS . 18 



APPENDIX 



A CORE SEDIMENT DESCRIPTIONS 25 



B GRANULOMETRIC DATA AND CUMULATIVE CURVE PLOTS 38 



C SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES -^3 



TABLES 



1 Grain-size scales — soil classification 16 



2 Primary sediment classes from the central New Jersey shelf 17 



3 Potential borrow areas 22 



4 Cores from the Ocean City to Avalon survey 23 



5 Promising core sites 23 



FIGURES 



1 Central New Jersey study area 8 



2 Location of seismic reflection profiles and vibratory cores in 



the Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, area 9 



3 Location of seismic reflection profiles and vibratory cores in 



the study area from Ship Bottom to Atlantic City 10 



4 Location of seismic reflection profiles, side-scan sonar records, 



and vibracores off Ocean City to Avalon segment 11 



5 Bathjmietric map of the inner shelf off Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey . . 12 



6 Bathymetric map of the shelf from Harvey Cedars to Atlantic 



City, New Jersey 13 



7 Bathymetric map of the study area south of Ocean City to 



Avalon, New Jersey 14 



