Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Canyon region offshore of New York and New Jersey

Sheet 1.—Sea floor topography in shaded relief view, with sea floor depth as topographic contours. Figure 2. Map showing the location of the Hudson Canyon on the continental slope and rise offshore of the northeast United States. Data presented on sheets 1 and 2 are from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown survey of the Hudson Canyon (outlined by the heavy black line), supplemented by multibeam surveys of the Hudson Shelf Valley (Butman and others, 2003), the Hudson Canyon (WHOI), and the outer shelf (STRATAFORM), and by the NOAA Coastal Relief Model. Light gray lines are the location of widely-spaced 3.5 kHz subbottom profiles. Lines labeled A-G are locations of profiles shown in Figure 10. Figure 1. Perspective view, looking toward the northwest, of the continental shelf incised by the Hudson Shelf Valley, and the continental slope and rise incised by the Hudson Canyon. The black line outlines the limits of the survey carried out by the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown shown on sheets 1 and 2.

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