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Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico

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Stetson Bank, West Flower Gardens, East Flower Gardens

In 1997, the USGS Seafloor Mapping Project conducted a series of test surveys in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles south of the Texas-Louisiana border. These surveys collected high quality bathymetry and backscatter using a Kongsberg Simrad EM300 multibeam system. The test surveys collected such spectacular data that it was decided to publish the data

Reference

Gardner, J.V., Mayer, L.A., Hughes Clarke, J.E., and Kleiner, A. 1999. High-resolution multibeam bathymetry of East and West Flower Gardens and Stetson Banks, Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico Science.