. Collected reprints / Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories [and] Pacific Oceanographic Laboratories. Oceanography MODERN ESTUARY MOUTH SHOAL, TIDAL CHANNELS PAIRED FLOOD CHANNEL RETREAT TRACK, ESTUARINE SHOAL-RETREAT MASSIF 40M SCARP TRANSGRESSED CUSPATE DELTA; (CAPE SHOAL- RETREAT MASSIF) 60M SCARP. FIGURE 12. The Delaware shelf valley complex, Delaware shelf of North America. Southward littoral drift of New Jersey coastal compartment is injected into reversing tidal stream of mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The resulting shoal is stabilized as a system of interdigit
. Collected reprints / Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories [and] Pacific Oceanographic Laboratories. Oceanography MODERN ESTUARY MOUTH SHOAL, TIDAL CHANNELS PAIRED FLOOD CHANNEL RETREAT TRACK, ESTUARINE SHOAL-RETREAT MASSIF 40M SCARP TRANSGRESSED CUSPATE DELTA; (CAPE SHOAL- RETREAT MASSIF) 60M SCARP. FIGURE 12. The Delaware shelf valley complex, Delaware shelf of North America. Southward littoral drift of New Jersey coastal compartment is injected into reversing tidal stream of mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The resulting shoal is stabilized as a system of interdigitating ebb and flood channels, north of the main couplet of a mutually evasive ebb and flood channel. The shelf valley complex seaward of the bay mouth is the retreat path of the bay mouth sedimentary regime through Holocene time. Retreat of the main flood channel has excavated the Delaware shelf valley; retreat of the bay mouth shoal has left a seaward-trending shoal retreat massif on the shelf valley's north flank. From Swift (1973). sheet tends to completely fill the former subaerial valley cut by the river into the Pleistocene strata, and the shelf valley complex and the buried river channel may not everywhere coincide (Fig. 13). Shelf valley complexes are built in serial fashion by the retreating shoreline. It is important to remember that the last high-energy depositional environment ex- perienced by any given segment was the nearshore zone. As a consequence of remolding of preexisting deposits in this zone, elements of shelf valley complexes are not always what they seem. For instance, in Fig. 12, the topographic characteristics of the Delaware midshelf 536. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories; Pacific Oceanographic Laboratories; United
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