The coarse- to fine-grained boundary beneath the New England Mud Patch: evidence from seismic and core data for an abrupt post-transgressive change in hydrologic regime on the continental shelf

John Goff1, Jason D Chaytor2, Allen H Reed3, Shihao Liu1,4, Preston S Wilson5 and David P Knobles6, (1)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Seafloor Sciences Branch, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (4)Ocean University of China, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qingdao, China, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Research Laboratories, Austin, United States, (6)KSA, LLC, Austin, TX, United States