bathymetric map of new york / new jersey metropolitan coastal area.

Bathymetry of the coastal ocean in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region. The sandy, relatively shallow mid-Atlantic continental shelf is bisected by the Hudson Shelf valley, a submerged river valley containing muddy sediments that may act as a conduit for cross-shelf transfer of sediments. Image courtesy of Deep East 2001, NOAA/OER.

Related Links

Deep East 2001

Deep East: Ocean Dumping

NOAA Ocean Explorer Gallery