Northern Gulf of Mexico Topographic Features Study. Volume One: Management, Geology, Biology, Water and Sediment Dynamics, Summary and Bibliography

摘要

The main purpose of the study was to gather data from selected areas and topographic features in the Gulf of Mexico, and then reduce, map, analyze, synthesize, integrate, and report findings and conclusions. Geological, chemical, physical, geophysical, and biological oceanographic data were collected from the Florida Middle Ground (off the west Florida coast) and from twelve topographic features off the Louisiana-Texas coast. This report presents the findings of the work performed during the period August 1978 to November 1980 and extends the efforts begun in 1961 by researchers from TAMU on a cruise to the West Flower Garden Bank conducted by R. Rezak on the R/V HIDALGO.