Martha's Vineyard Topography and Water Features

Title:: Martha's Vineyard Topography and Water Features
Description:: Glacial history strongly controls the distribution of fresh water on and below the Island’s surface. The western moraine is underlain by clay deposits that hold rainfall near the surface and support most of the Island’s wetlands, ponds, streams, and moist or hydric soils. In contrast, the sandy outwash plain allows water to percolate readily into the freshwater aquifer that lies deeply below its surface. The sandy eastern area contains just a few ponds (e.g., Duarte, Fresh, Lily, and Jernegan Ponds) and wetlands (e.g., Dodger’s Hole, Beetle Swamp, and Airport Bog). The Island’s relatively few salt marshes are concentrated on Chappaquiddick and around the great ponds.
Name on Item:: Brian R. Hall [Compiler]
Date:: February 28, 2016
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:: Book illustrations
Location:: Harvard University
Harvard Forest Archives
Collection (local):: Harvard Forest Martha's Vineyard Collection
Subjects:: Coastal
Regional Studies
Geology
Places:: Massachusetts > Dukes (county) > Martha's Vineyard (island)
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vh53xt020
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Brian R. Hall
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).

Notes:: Wetlands, waterbodies, and brooks are from the National Hydrography Dataset: http://nhd.usgs.gov/. Hydric or Partially Hydric Soils (Where Not Wetland) . The soils are the NRCS SSURGO-Certified Soils datalayer downloaded from MassGIS (Office of Geographic Information (MassGIS), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MassIT).
Notes (publications):: From: Martha's Vineyard Book, Chapter 3
Identifier:: FosterFig3-12