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Northeast U.S Canyons 2013
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2013 Northeast US Canyons Expedition
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White sea stars and an anthomastus coral on a surface formed by spallingfrom the canyon wall.
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A fossil burrow exposed on the canyon wall.
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A fish swims over a large rectangular prism of rock that has broken off thecanyon wall.
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A lone red shrimp on a large rectangular prism of rock that has broken off thecanyon wall.
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A grenadier hovering over a ledge formed by the breaking off ofa large block of rock from the canyon wall. White translucent glass spongescolonize the ledge.
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Horizontal bands of strata on the canyon wall.
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Vertical striation on canyon wall - among the possibilities for the origin ofthis feature are an embryonic sediment chute and alternatively, a longlinefrom a commercial fishing vessel scraping the canyon wall.
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Vertical striation on canyon wall - among the possibilities for the origin ofthis feature are an embryonic sediment chute and alternatively, a longlinefrom a commercial fishing vessel scraping the canyon wall.
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Failure of canyon wall along an irregular surface. The black areas may becaused by springs seeping through the canyon wall.
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A black coral bush near a failure surface along the canyon wall.
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Nearly orthogonal failure surfaces along the canyon wall.
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A large skate near a boulder that has broken off the canyon wall. Glass sponges, a red leg of a large squat lobster, and a large orange anemone are also seenon the lower ledge below the skate.
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A large block of rock apparently unattached from the main canyon wall.
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A series of sediment chutes cutting through the sedimentary rock of thecanyon wall.
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A series of sediment chutes cutting through the sedimentary rock of thecanyon wall. Sediment trails extend through the unconsolidated sediment at thebase of the escarpment.
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Sediment chutes extending down the canyon wall. In other areas where they arenot as deeply inscribed in the canyon wall, it has been suggested that thewhite trails such as seen in the left center were perhaps caused by monofilamentlonglines scraping
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Sediment chutes extending down the canyon wall. In other areas where they arenot as deeply inscribed in the canyon wall, it has been suggested that thewhite trails such as seen in the left center were perhaps caused by monofilamentlonglines scraping
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Differential erosion with more resistant beds protruding out from the canyonwall. Eventually this resistant material will experience tabular slab failure and fall to the bottom of the escarpment.
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An interesting sediment chute that ends midway on an escarpment withevidence of downslope sediment movement showing with the white streakbelow the well-defined chute.
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Horizontal sedimentary rock layers showing effects of differential erosion.
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