Figure 3. A graph of sea-floor area in coastal Maine shows that the largest area is composed of shallow water (less than 10 meters or 33 feet deep). The limited abundance of area deeper than 90 meters (300 feet) is an artifact of limiting the analysis to shallower water depths. Values are derived from Maine Geological Survey maps in the series Surficial Geology of the Maine Inner Continental Shelf (Barnhardt and others, 1996), and summarized further in the MGS publication The Seafloor Revealed (Kelley and others, 1998).

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