Acoustic Geology of a Portion of Virginia's Innermost Continental Shelf

Authors

Carl H. Hobbs III, Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceFollow

Files

Document Type

Book Chapter

Department/Program

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Editors

C.R. Berquist, Jr.

Publication Date

1990

Book Title

Heavy Mineral Studtes - Virginia Inner Continental Shelf

Publisher

Virginia Division Of Mineral Resources

City

Charlottesville, VA

Volume

Publication 103

Abstract

Side-scan sonography of the innermost continental shelf between Cape Henry and the Virginia-North Carolina border depicts a relatively typical inner shelf bottom generally characterized by medium density, meso-scale roughness. Subbottom acoustic protiles depict the stratigraphy as a Tertiary age basement separated from Quatenary-age deposits by a regional, angular(?) unconformity. Holocene-age sediments form a discontinuous layer above another unconformity. The area's topography appears to be a function of the presence of the modern sediments.

Recommended Citation

Hobbs, Carl H. III, "Acoustic Geology of a Portion of Virginia's Innermost Continental Shelf" (1990). VIMS Books and Book Chapters. 103.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsbooks/103