Description: This dataset includes point data representing vibracore and foundation borings in the coastal waters and offshore Alabama in the Gulf of America.
Copyright Text: APTIM, 2022, Supplemental geophysical and geotechnical data Dauphin Island east end beach and dune restoration, Tampa, FL: Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure, 34 p.
Forrest-Vandera, B.M., Larenas, M., and Andrews, J.L., 2011, Dauphin Island coastline restoration: sand search investigation: Boca Raton, Florida: Coastal Planning & Engineering, Inc. prepared for the Town of Dauphin Island, 1003 p.
Hummell Richard L., 1996, Holocene Geologic History of the West Alabama Inner Continental Shelf, Alabama, GSA Circular 189.
Parker, S. J., Davies, D. J., and Smith, W. E., 1993, Geological, economic, and environmental characterization of selected near-term leasable offshore sand deposits and competing onshore sources for beach nourishment: Minerals Management Service Cooperative Agreement No. 14-35-0001-30630, 223 p. + 60 p. appendix
Hummell, R. L., and Smith, W. E., 1995, Geologic and environmental characterization and near-term lease potential of an offshore sand resource site for use in beach nourishment projects on Dauphin Island, Alabama: Minerals Management Service Cooperative Agreement No. 14-35-0001-30725, 165 p. + 28 p. appendix
Hummell, R.L. and Smith, W.E., 1996, Geologic resource delineation and hydrographic characterization of an offshore sand resource site for use in beach nourishment projects on Dauphin Island, Alabama, Minerals Management Service Cooperative Agreement No. 14-35-0001-30781, 169 p. + 38 p. appendix
Hummell, Richard L., 1999, Geological and economic characterization and near-term potential of sand resources of the east Alabama inner continental shelf offshore of Morgan Peninsula, Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey, Open-File Report 99-01: Minerals Management Service Cooperative Agreement No. 1435-01-98-CA-30935, 231 p.
McBride, R. A., 1997, Seafloor morphology, geologic framework, and sedimentary processes of a sand-rich shelf offshore Alabama and northwest Florida: northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 508 p.
Sawyer, W.B., Vaughan, C., Lavoie, D., Furukawa, Y., Carnaggio, N., Maclean, J., and Populis, E., 2001, Northorn gulf littoral initiative (NGLI), geology and physical properties of marine sediments in the N.E. Gulf of Mexico: Naval Research Laboratory Data Report NRL/MR-MM/7430--01-8548, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 12 p.
Olsen Associates, Inc., 2001, Gulf Shores, Alabama beach restoration project, sand search investigation: Jacksonville, Florida, Olsen Associates, Inc., submitted to the City of Gulf Shores, Alabama, 22 p. Olsen Associates, Inc., 2006, Orange Beach, Gulf State Park, and Gulf Shores 2006 phase I deep-water sand search: Jacksonville, Florida, Olsen Associates, Inc., submitted to the City of Orange Beach, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the City of Gulf Shores, Alabama, 59 p.
Olsen Associates, Inc., 2011 phase II sand search, project borrow site identification: Jacksonville, Florida, Olsen Associates, Inc., submitted to the City of Orange Beach, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the City of Gulf Shores, Alabama, 70 p. + 141 p. appendices.
Brande, Scott, 1983, Seismic survey, geological stratigraphy, and dredge spoil studies of Mobile Bay region, Alabama: Birmingham, Alabama, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, Project No. R/ER-6, Final Report, 48 p. + 32 p. appendices.
Name: Mobile Bay/Mississippi Sound sediment contours (Modified Shepard 1969)
Display Field: Folk
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: This polygon dataset displays sediment distribution types in Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound.
Copyright Text: Ryan, J.J., 1969, A Sedimentologic study of Mobile Bay, Alabama: Florida State University, Department of Geology, Sedimentological Research Laboratory, Contribution no. 30, 110 p.
Description: This polygon dataset displays sediment distribution types in Mobile Bay.
Copyright Text: Isphording, W. C., and Lamb, G. M., 1979, The sediments of Mobile Bay: Alabama Coastal Area Board, Dauphin Island Sea Lab Report No. 80-002, 23 p.
Description: This polygon dataset displays sediment distribution types in Mobile Bay.
Copyright Text: Isphording, W. C., and Isphording, G.W., 1991, Identification of ancient storm events in buried Gulf coast sediments: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 41, p. 339-347.
Name: Mobile Bay/Mississippi Sound sediment contours (CMECS 2024)
Display Field: CMECS
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPolygon
Description: This polygon dataset displays sediment distribution types in Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound based on the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS).
Name: Beach monitoring, gulf-fronting state locations
Display Field: NAME
Type: Feature Layer
Geometry Type: esriGeometryPoint
Description: Point dataset representing hard control monument or benchmark locations used by the GSA to collect Gulf of Mexico-fronting beach profiles on Dauphin Island and the Morgan Peninsula.
Copyright Text: Funding for this project was provided by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State Lands Division, Coastal Section (ADCNR-Coastal), in part, by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management.
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Description: Point dataset representing select virtual horizontal and vertical control locations used by Olsen in the design and post-construction monitoring of the engineered beach (Orange Beach/Gulf State Park/Gulf Shores 2005-2006 beach restoration project) along the Gulf of Mexico in Baldwin County.
Copyright Text: Funding for this project was provided by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State Lands Division, Coastal Section (ADCNR-Coastal), in part, by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management. Olsen Associates, Inc., 2006, Orange Beach/Gulf State Park/Gulf Shores 2005-2006 beach restoration project, Baldwin County, Alabama, post-construction report submitted to the City of Orange Beach, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the City of Gulf Shores, Alabama: Jacksonville, Florida, Olsen Associates, Inc., 91 p. These data, as represented in the above publication, were provided to the GSA by personal communication with Dr. Al Browder (Olsen Associates, Inc.) on September 25, 2003 and October 3, 2006.