PREFACE 



This report is one of a series which describes results of the Inner Conti- 

 nental Shelf Sediment and Structure (ICONS) study. The preliminary objective 

 of the ICONS study is locating and delineating offshore sand and gravel deposits 

 suitable for beach restoration and maintenance. The subject of this report is 

 three survey areas off the central New Jersey coast. The work was carried out 

 under the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC) Barrier Island 

 Sedimentation Studies work unit. Shore Protection and Restoration Program, 

 Coastal Engineering Area of Civil Works Research and Development. 



This report was prepared by Edward P. Meisburger and S. Jeffress Williams, 

 CERC geologists, under the general supervision of Dr. C.H. Everts, Chief, 

 Engineering Geology Branch, and Mr. N. Parker, Chief, Engineering Development 

 Division. Original copies of all the seismic records from the Barnegat and 

 Little Egg surveys are stored at CERC. The cores from these surveys are in a 

 repository at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia. The records 

 and cores from the Ocean City to Avalon survey are at the UiS. Army Engineer 

 District, Philadelphia. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E., upon publica- 

 tion of this report. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 19A5, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1'963. 



[ED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



