Echo-sounding profile and a portion of a seismic (chirper) line through Heald Bank.




Echo-sounding profile across Heald Bank showing large-scale (2 m-high and 700 m-long) sand waves migrating toward the northeast








Cross-section B-B' (six cores collected alongthe transect are indicated on the cross section)



click here to see cores representing typical lithologic facies.

click here to see block diagrams depicting bank evolution.

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