Subaqueous Soils - soil underwater! Info from Wikipedia

new Subaqueous Soil Google Earth File (requires the free Google Earth program) new
MapCoast: Rhode Island Mapping Partnership for Coastal Soils and Sediment

Subaqueous Soil Point Data for Rhode Island (Google Earth KML file)

Subaqueous and Submerged Soil Information Page - by Jim Turenne and Mike Bradley.

Introduction to Subaqueous Soils - 3 MB PDF Document.

Glossary Of Terms For Subaqueous Soils, Associated Landscapes, Landforms, And Related Materials- by Mark Stolt

Proposed Amendments to Soil Taxonomy to Accommodate Subaqueous Soils - Draft

List of Subaqueous Soil Series


41N Special Edition
Subaqueous Soil


NBC 10 Watershed Watch Report, October 27, 2005: MapCoast Partnership

    
NBC 10 Watershed Watch Report, October 11, 2007

Quick Links to Site of Interest: Email to add a link

MapCoast - The mapping partnership for coastal soils and sediment in RI

Presentations made at the National Workshop for Subaqueous Soils in Delaware 2003

Subaqueous Soil-Landscape Relationships in a Rhode Island Estuary (Bradley and Stolt, 2003)

Subaqueous Soils: Pedogenesis in a Submersed Environment (Demas and Rabenhorst, 1999)

Bradley, M.P.; Stolt, M.H. (2006). Landscape-level seagrass-sediment relations in a coastal lagoon. Aquat. Bot. 84(2): 121-128. [PDF, 595 KB]

Submerged Soils: A New Frontier in Soil Survey (original article by George Demas in Soil Survey Horizons, Summer 1993)

Hudson River Estuary Benthic Mapper
Coastal Zone Soil Survey of Little Narragansett Bay, RI
Soils of Europe - Section on Subaqueous Soils - by Dr. Walter Kubiena, 1953
MapCoast 2004 User Conference Report

Geophysical and Remote Sensing Links:
Coastal Remote Sensing (CRS) Program
Mean Sea Level, GPS, and the Geoid - Article from ESRI on MSL.
SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGE AND GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATION OF THE SEAFLOOR NEAR FALKNER ISLAND CONNECTICUT
Using Vibracore Technology - Vibracore Title Page - Training Module from USGS
HIGH-RESOLUTION GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE SEA FLOOR OFFSHORE OF MASSACHUSETTS

Related Sites:
Coastal America
CRMC Eelgrass GIS data
Estuarine Research Federation
 


A soil core from a mainland cove landform in 5 feet of water from Point Judith Pond, Rhode Island showing 4 major geologic events: Deposition of till starting at 130 cm, post-glacial eolian loess deposit at approximately 1 meter, fresh-water organic deposition (interpreted as an Atlantic white cedar swamp) at 40 cm and marine silts being deposited to the surface.

 

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