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![The east coast of the United States showing the continental shelf, shelf break, continental slope, and sediment types map00018.jpg The east coast of the United States showing the continental shelf, shelf break, continental slope, and sediment types](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_map00018.jpg)
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The east coast of the United States showing the continental shelf, shelf break, continental slope, and sediment types. This was one of the first publishedmaps of this nature. The Coast Survey had rediscovered the continental shelfbreak in 1848. Count Luigi Marsili had first noted it in the Gulf of Lyon about 1720 but that information had been forgotten in the mid Nineteenth Century.
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NOAA Central Library Historical Collection
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
Bathymetric Maps Collection
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