FEATURE SWATH MAPPING ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF AND SLOPE: THE EEL RIVER BASIN,

•.. morphological structure of surficial features at a level of detail and coverage unavailable by any other means. TH ~ STRArAFORM program sponsored by the Of_ rice of Naval Research (Nittrouer and Kravitz, 1996, this issue) seeks to understand how sedi-mentary processes lead to the formation of the stratigraphic sequences on continental margins. A central challenge facing this effort is to understand the transport of sediments in shore-parallel as well as shore-perpendicular directions • Multidimension-ality is necessary to describe, for example, the ac