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# Bathymetric Terrain Model of the Puerto Rico Trench and the Northeastern Caribbean Region for Marine Geological Investigations

#### By Brian D. Andrews, Uri S. ten Brink, William W. Danforth, Jason D. Chaytor, José-Luis Granja Bruña, Pilar Llanes Estrada, and Andrés Carbó-Gorosabel

| Abstract
Multibeam bathymetric data collected in the Puerto Rico Trench and northeastern Caribbean region are compiled into a seamless bathymetric terrain model for broad-scale geological investigations of the trench system. These data, collected during eight separate surveys between 2002 and 2013 and covering almost 180,000 square kilometers, are published here in large-format map sheet and digital spatial data. This report describes the common multibeam data collection and processing methods used to produce the bathymetric terrain model and corresponding data-source polygon. Details documenting the complete provenance of the data are provided in the metadata in the Data Catalog section. | First posted November 12, 2014
-  **Report** PDF (1.51 MB) 
-  **Plate** PDF (79.2 MB)    Bathymetric Terrain Model of the Puerto Rico Trench and the Northeastern Caribbean Region for Marine Geological Investigations 
-  **Downloads** Directory  Readme  file for more information. 

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### Suggested citation:

Andrews, B.D., ten Brink, U.S., Danforth, W.W., Chaytor, J.D., Granja Bruña, José-Luis, Llanes Estrada, Pilar, and Carbó-Gorosabel, Andrés, 2014, Bathymetric terrain model of the Puerto Rico trench and the northeastern Caribbean region for marine geological investigations: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013–1125, 10 p., 1 pl., *http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131125*.

ISSN 2331-1258 (online)

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### Contents

Acknowledgments

Abstract

Introduction

Multibeam Data

Common Processing Methods

Data Catalog

Map Sheet

References Cited

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