Early & Significant Bathymetric Map of the Eastern Seaboard, A.C. Veatch, 1939

Description: "Northeastern United States Showing Relation of Land and Submarine Topography"Color-printed map, 1939, prepared by A.C. Veatch and Paul A. Smith, initially printed for the Geological Society of America, Special Paper Number 7 (Plate 1), “Atlantic Submarine Valleys of the United States and the Congo Submarine Valley”, published by the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, and reprinted in 1939 for the American Geographical Society, the first published map to show the inshore submarine topography in detail, on stiff off-white paper, with horizontal and vertical folds as issued (slightly flattened); some slight creasing around some of the folds but otherwise in very good condition and an uncommon mapSheet 35 1/2 x 36 3/4 inchesAccording to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, "...the greatest work associated with these surveys [of the early 1930s] was a paper published in 1939 by the geologist A.C. Veatch and the brilliant C&GS officer Lieutenant Paul Smith. This paper was titled “Atlantic Submarine Valleys of the United States and the Congo Submarine Valley” and was Geological Society of America Special Papers Number 7. Included in this paper was a beautiful map that extended from Lydonia Canyon on its northeast corner to Norfolk Canyon off Chesapeake Bay at its southern limit. Shown on this map were thirteen named canyons as well as a number of other canyons incised in the continental shelf. This map served to call the attention of the geological community to the rugged and grand nature of the seafloor, previously believed by many to be bland and featureless. It also served to ignite a fierce debate in the scientific community regarding the mode of formation of canyons..."https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/updates/a-monumental-history/

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Location: Portsmouth, Rhode Island

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