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Close-up Of The Dredge Disposal Site, Mamala Bay

Close-up view of the dredge and construction material disposal site (A) in Mamala Bay. The site has a high backscatter pattern from coalescing of numerous individual disposal operations. At the periphery of the disposal site are numerous individual high backscatter patches (B), each interpreted as the result of a single dump. Water depth is about 450m in the site. Note the large bedforms (C) and moats around individual outcrop blocks (D), both indicating strong bottom currents. The scale across the bottom of the image is appx 3 km. The vertical exaggeration is 5x.

Disposal Area

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Menlo Park, CA 94025

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Maintained by Laura Zink Torresan
Last modified 11 October 2005 (lzt)