San Francisco Bay Coastal System

Images & data samples

Looking toward the Marin Headlands across Golden Gate strait.

View toward San Francisco Bay from the inlet mouth.

View underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, in the fog, toward Marin.

View toward San Francisco Bay with Ft. Point on the right.

Rikk Kvitek, captain of R/V VenTresca.

Transducer head of the Reson 8101 multibeam sonar system.

The R/V VenTresca.

The R/V VenTresca.

Seafloor mapping-central aboard R/V VenTresca.

Seacliff-Baker Beach area.

2008 multibeam details

multibeam inventory as of 2007

1997 multibeam bathymetry — Circular 1259

South SF Bay single-beam bathymetry — OFR 2007-1169

San Pablo Bay 2006 multibeam, preliminary plot

Fort Point wayside poster

Alcatraz dump site restored to 1890s

sediment thickness in west central SF Bay

bay floor habitats, from Greene et al., 2003

sidescan sonar images of dredge scour marks on bay floor

USGS sample locations in San Francisco Bay, 1970(?)-1999

sample locations in San Francisco Bay, 1990-1991

selected gravity cores, central SF Bay

sidescan sonar coverage of Suisun Bay — OF2003-250

1990-91 core sample locations, Suisun Bay

4-8 March 1999 sample locations and grain size data, Suisun Bay, OF2003-250

15-18 November 1999 sample locations and grain size data, Suisun Bay — OF2003-250

13-15 March 2000 sample locations and grain size data, Suisun Bay — OF2003-250

sediment samples, southern SF Bay

SF Bay mud thickness from Goldman, 1969: image — data — metadata