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Harper, David P. and Kay Yost, 1989. Bibliography and Index of New Jersey Geology, 1753-1983. New Jersey Geological Survey Report 21.

MAPS

U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1993. New York HarborBathymetric Chart 12327.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1995. Northeastern Region, Geological Highway Map [CN, ME, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT]. Tulsa, OK: AAPG.

Rogers, William B., Yngvar W. Isachsen, Timothy D. Mock, and Richard E. Nyahay, 1990. New York State Geological Highway Map. Albany, NY: Geological Survey/New York State Museum, Leaflet no. 28.

Lyttle, Peter T., and Jack B. Epstein, 1987. Geologic map of the Newark 1 X 2 degree quadrangle, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1715.

Weed. E. G. A., J. P. Minard, W. J. Perry, Jr., E. C. Rhodenhamel, and E. I. Robbins, 1974. Generalized Pre-Pleistocene Geologic Map of the Northern United States Atlantic Continental Margin. U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-861.

FIELD GUIDES (Items a real beachcomber shouldn't be without!)

Abbott, R. Tucker, 1986. A Guide to Field Identification: Seashells of North America. NY: Golden Press.

Audubon Society, 1992. Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Audubon Society, 1990. Field Guide to North American Seashells. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Audubon Society, 1987. Field Guide to North American Fossils. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Gosner, Kenneth L., 1979. A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore From Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (Peterson Field Guides Series).

Hume, Ivor Noel, 1991. A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America. NY: Vintage Books.

Kraft, Herbert C. and John T. Kraft, 1991. The Indians of Lenapehoking (The Lenape or Delaware Indians). South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum, 46 p.

Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1993. Beachcombers Guide to the North Atlantic Seashore. Lincoln, MA: MAS.

Sabelli, Bruno, 1980. Simon & Schuster's Guide to Shells. NY: Simon & Schuster.

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Bloom, 1983

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Goldsmith, Victor, 1992. New York City is flooding. Sea Frontiers, v. 38(4), p. 24-31, 62.

Hanley, Robert, 1992. Two towns use different tactics to fight beach erosion. New York Times, October 13, 1992, p. B4.

Hawes, Elizabeth, 1993. Castles in the sand [Fire Island's fight against natural disaster]. New York Times, July 11, 1993, p. 6- 24.

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Hutchinson, Deborah R. and John A. Grow, 1982. New York Bight fault. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-208, 8 p.

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Kerhin, Randall T. and S. Jeffress Williams, 1987. Surficial sediments and Late Quaternary sedimentary framework of the Maryland inner continental shelf. Coastal Sediments '87, p. 2126- 2140.

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MacKenzie, Clyde L., Jr., 1992. The fisheries of Raritan Bay. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

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Nummedal, Dag and John W. Snedden, 1987. Sediment exchange between the shoreface and continental shelf - evidence from the modern Texas coast and the rock record. Coastal Sediment '87, p. 2110-2125.

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Olsson, Robert K., 1987. Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Atlantic Highlands of New Jersey. Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide - Northeastern Section, p. 87-90.

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Payton, Beverly M., 1985, Ocean dumping in the New York Bight. Environment, November, 1985, p. 26-32.

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