Anatomy, Age and Origin of Erosional Features on the Continental Slope

该项目旨在了解大规模生产的过程 通过拍摄和取样特定的基底而浪费， 露头，并定量描述和分类海底 利用大陆坡声学遥感确定地形 在新泽西海岸附近该区域的侧扫声纳图像 在这个项目中，已经存在了，并且沿着沿着的采样- 将使用潜水器完成侧面露头 阿尔文并在其他地方取芯， 摄影从一个牵引雪橇，这将地面真相， 现有图像数据。这些数据将有助于回答重要的问题 未知数，例如，斜坡的侵蚀是否是由 海平面和气候等外部力量，或 坡度和侵蚀速率的信息。它将 也回答了关于数字化的可靠性的问题， 在预测海底底质时处理的海底图像 海底的类型和内部特性。

The project is aimed at understanding the process of mass- wasting by photographing and sampling specific substrates and outcrops, and to quantitatively describe and classify subsea terrains using acoustic remote sensing on the continental slope off the New Jersey coast. Side-scan sonar imagery of the area already exists, and under this project sampling along steep- sided outcrops will be a accomplished by using the submersible ALVIN. complemented by coring in other places, and seabed photography from a towed sled, which will ground-truth the existing imagery data. The data will help answer important unknowns, such as, whether the erosion of slope is caused by external forces such as sea level and climate or by failure of the slope, and information about the rate of erosion. It will also answer the questions about the reliability of digitally processed imagery of the seafloor in predicting the substrate type and internal properties of the seabed.