Somes Sound

Somes Sound

Somes Sound is a body of water running deep into Mount Desert Island, the main site of Acadia National Park in Maine, United States. Its deepest point is approximately 175 feet, and it is over 100 feet deep in several places. The sound almost splits the island in two. While often described as a fjord, it lacks the extreme vertical relief and anoxic sediments associated with Norwegian fjords, and is perhaps better described as a "fjard" — a smaller drowned glacial embayment.

Somes Sound was named for the settler Abraham Somes.

External links

* [http://www2.nature.nps.gov/Geology/parks/acad/index.cfm Geology of Acadia National Park]
* [http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/marine/sites/nov98.htm Somes Sound]


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