Two views of the same slide imaged by the multibeam bathymetry method.Two views of the same slide imaged by the multibeam bathymetry method.

Figures 2a and 2b. Two views of the same slide imaged by the multibeam bathymetry method. These figures were generated by combining seven along-slope bathymetry swaths that were collected during a day and a half of surveying and processed in near real-time. The gray scale image was rotated to mimic the viewing angle and lighting direction in Figure 1. A more regional 3-D view, with colors representing depth, shows the scarp from a different angle. The resolution of these images is 150 meters, much higher than in Figure 1.

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