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  Rhode Island Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhode Island Sound is a strait of water, off the coast of the state of Rhode Island at mouth of Narragansett Bay.
Geographically, it is the eastward extension of Block Island Sound.
Northwest of Rhode Island Sound is Buzzards Bay.
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 Rhode Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen original American colonies that declared independence against British rule to begin the American Revolution.
Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
Rhode Island was one of the Northern colonies (aka "New England" colonies).
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 Rhode Island
Rhode Island (pronounced "Rode Island") is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
Rhode Island was the last state to ratify the United States Constitution (May 29, 1790) and did so only under the threat of being declared a foreign nation and having its exports taxed.
Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, on the southwest by New York (sea border), and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the North Atlantic Ocean.
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 rhode island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Among the widespread mammals of Rhode Island are white-tailed deer, beaver, otter, rabbit, raccoon, skunk, squirrel, and woodchuck.
Rhode Island is governed under a constitution adopted in 1842, as amended; this instrument replaced a colonial charter of 1663.
Rhode Island's highest tribunal, the supreme court, is made up of a chief justice and four associate justices, all chosen for life by the state legislature.
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 Rhode Island - USA State, Indian Earth, Nature, Ecology,Rhode Island bounded by Massachusetts, Rhode Island Sound, and ...
Rhode Island, one of the 13 original colonies and the smallest of the 50 states, is bounded on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the south by Rhode Island Sound, and on the west by Connecticut.
Rhode Island's two physiographic regions are the eastern lowlands and the western uplands.
Rhode Island was the last of the 13 colonies to ratify (1790) the constitution, a delay brought about by its citizens' apprehensions at yielding power to the federal government.
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 Rhode Island : RI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams as a place of religious freedom for Baptist settlers.
Rhode Island was the site of the Dorr Rebellion[?] of 1842 in which Thomas Dorr[?] drafted a liberal constitution which was passed by popular referendum but which was opposed by the sitting governor Samuel Ward King[?].
Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound[?] and the North Atlantic Ocean.
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 Rhode Island Information Page
The Rhode Island Sound on the south is the basis of the state's fishing industry.
Rhode Island's first permanent European settlement was made in 1636 by the dissident minister Roger Williams and his followers, who had been banished from Massachusetts.
Eastern Rhode Island constitutes the Narragansett, or Seaboard, Lowland, while the New England Upland, part of the Appalachian Highlands, occupies the western two-thirds of the state, culminating in the highest point, Jerimoth Hill, 812 feet (247 metres), near the community of North Foster.
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 Rhode Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
Rhode Island is known as "The Ocean State", due to its naval history and the fact that every point in the state is within 30 miles of sea water.
Rhode Island has a higher percentage of Catholics than any other state in the nation, probably due to heavy Italian and Irish communities throughout the state.
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 World Almanac for Kids
RHODE ISLAND, in full, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the New England states of the U.S., bordered on the N and E by Massachusetts, on the S by Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound (arms of the Atlantic Ocean), and on the W by Connecticut.
In the former city are the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Rhode Island Historical Society museum, and in the latter are the Naval War College Museum, the Newport Historical Society museum, and the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, with displays of U.S. art.
Rhode Island’s first newspaper, the Rhode Island Gazette, was published in Newport in 1732 by James Franklin (1697–1735), brother of Benjamin Franklin.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/rhodeisland.html   (3488 words)

  
 Block_Island_Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Block Island Sound, shown shaded in red, between the coast of the Rhode Island and Block Island.
Block Island Sound is a strait in the open Atlantic, approximately ten miles wide, separating Block Island from the coast of Rhode Island in the United States.
Geographically, it is the eastward extension of Long Island Sound, as well as the westward extension of Rhode Island Sound.
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 Rhode Island Vacation Rentals For Rent By Owner Direct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the nation, being approximately 37 miles from east to west and 48 miles from north to south.
Rhode Island is nicknamed the Ocean State due to the 400 miles of shoreline within its borders.
Ninigret Pond is Rhode Island's largest salt pond (at approximately 1700 acres) and is linked to the Block Island Sound via a man-made breachway.
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 Rhode Island Symbols
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States.
Rhode Island (pronounced "Road Island") is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
Rhode Island's state fish is the Fish Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis), that is added to the state's waters each spring.
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 USGS OFR 02-002: Summary Report - Block Island Sound
An extensive high-resolution, seismic-reflection survey was conducted in Block Island Sound (Figure 1) by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the State of Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, Department of Environmental Protection (D.E.P.), to determine the stratigraphic framework and Quaternary history of the sound.
The portions of southeastern Rhode Island that abut the sound are underlain by Precambrian metasedimentary and metavolcanic country rock that have been intruded by a pluton of Permian age (Hermes and others, 1981).
The sea floor beneath the eastern portion of the sound is generally smooth and dips southward to a depth of 45 m.
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 Rhode Island Sound -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rhode Island Sound is a strait of water, off the coast of the state of (A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state) Rhode Island at mouth of (A deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island) Narragansett Bay.
Geographically, it is the eastward extension of (Click link for more info and facts about Block Island Sound) Block Island Sound.
Northwest of Rhode Island Sound is (An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts) Buzzards Bay.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/rh/rhode_island_sound.htm   (93 words)

  
 URI oceanographers study relationship between Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound
However, relatively little is known about processes operating within Rhode Island Sound (RIS), a region of the inner shelf serving as the Bay's connection to the Atlantic Ocean.
Rhode Island Sound serves as a major supplier of water entering the Bay and processes operating here also govern how efficiently water, and chemical and biological material moving with the water, are flushed from the Bay.
In a recent issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Chris Kincaid and Robert Pockalny from URI's Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), and Linda Huzzey, from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy presented results of a study designed to enhance further understanding of RIS and the relationship between RIS and the Bay.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-10/uori-uos100703.php   (802 words)

  
 Rhode Island --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The source of the modern name is unclear: it either was given by colonist Roger Williams, thinking it was the island (Block Island) the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano had seen...
Rhode Island combines professional arts training with a broad liberal arts curriculum.
It was one of the 13 original colonies, settled by religious refugees under the leadership of Roger Williams, who had been banished from the neighboring Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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 USGS OFR 02-002: 1988 MMS Summary Report
In Long Island Sound, inferred Pleistocene glacial outwash deposits were the intended core targets at sites 88-1,88-3, 88-4, 88-7, and 88-8 (Figures 2a, 2b, and 2c).
The one sample from each of the Long Island Sound cores yielding the greatest concentration of heavy minerals was examined to determine mineral composition (Table 3b).
The results of vibra-coring in resource area BIS-1 (northern Block Island Sound) indicate that the area is marked by approximately 200 million m3 of medium to coarse sand with heavy mineral concentrations of approximately 4%.
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 LATE PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND PALEOCLIMATE, RHODE ISLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The maximum advance of Laurentide ice onto the Block Island shelf is marked by ridges and patches of boulder gravel of south of Block Island.
Block Island is part of an interlobate recessional moraine complex formed between the Narragansett Bay (NB) lobe on the east and the Central Rhode Island (CRI) lobe on the west.
Ice of the CRI lobe in Block Island Sound retreated to the Charlestown moraine recessional position and a glacial lake formed in Block Island Sound.
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 Rhode Island: Facts, Map and State Symbols - EnchantedLearning.com
- Rhode Island was either named for the Isle of Rhodes (in the Mediterranean Sea) or for its red clay (the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block may have named it "Rood Eylandt" meaning Red Island, in Dutch).
Rhode Island's official flag was adopted in 1897.
A blue ribbon is under the anchor and reads, "HOPE." The anchor was first adopted as a seal for Rhode Island in 1647, when the four original towns of Rhode Island (Providence, Warwick, Portsmouth, and Newport) united under a single charter.
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 Rhode Island Technical Schools - Including Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Technical Schools - Including Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Technical Colleges and Vocational Tech Schools
New England Institute of Technology in Rhode Island is an accredited school offering tech focused degrees in 28 fields of study.
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 Galilee, Rhode Island - Fishing Areas
Next to the lighthouse is Rose Nullman Park - a beautiful scenic overlook with wonderful views of the Rhode Island Sound.
Out to the horizon is the Rhode Island Sound.
Along the Escape Road next to Fisherman's Memorial State Park is Bluff Hill Cove Marsh - a tidal inlet that is part of Point Judith Pond.
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 Battelle - Environment - NEPA/EIA - Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Rhode Island Sound Dredged Material ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Battelle is preparing an EIS for the designation of a long-term, open-water disposal site in Rhode Island Sound.
Despite a historic demand for maintenance dredging of harbors, channels, and navigation-dependent facilities in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, many necessary public and private dredging projects have not gone forward because of the unavailability of disposal sites for dredged material.
The Rhode Island Sound EIS will evaluate a range of potential long-term disposal site alternatives in Rhode Island Sound and adjacent waters, along with the disposal and management of dredged material.
www.battelle.org /environment/rhode-island.stm   (215 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Block Island Sound, Rhode Island (RI) - (island) - Facts and Information
Block Island Sound, Rhode Island (RI), United States
Block Island Sound, R.I., arm of the Atlantic Ocean, bet.
and R.I. mainland, E of L.I. Sound and NE of Montauk Point (L.I.), W of R.I. Sound; c.10 mi/16 km wide.
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 Point Judith Lighthouse Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(1) Point Judith Light was built to mark Point Judith and the entrance to Rhode Island Sound (North of the Point) and Block Island Sound (South of the Point) and navigating around the point was perilous due to heavy seas and dense fog.
Point Judith is another perilous landfall along the Atlantic coast which many local mariners called the point another “Graveyard of the Atlantic” due to the rough seas and rocky shoals caused many shipwrecks.
The former Lifeboat station is an Active Coast Guard Station Point Judith protecting the waters of Block Island Sound.
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 Rhode Island Waters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Beginning in 1997 we joined several other laboratories to establish a network of observing systems in Rhode Island's coastal waters.
One of these buoys is located in the mid-Bay region off the west shore of Prudence Island, and near the south end of the Island.
A second buoy is located in the upper Bay region near the north end of Prudence Island.
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 Oceanographers study relationship between Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound
Oceanographers study relationship between Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound
Block Island to Nantucket: Narragansett and Buzzards Bays, Block Island, Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds
Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay steam vessels (American steam vessels series)
www.brightsurf.com /news/oct_03/EDU_news_100803_b.php   (991 words)

  
 PODC 2001
The first Rhode Island settlers from Boston landed here in 1638, led by Anne Hutchinson.
Benefit Street, known as Providence, Rhode Island's Mile of History, runs near Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.
It is maintained by Rhode Island School of Design - one of the country’s leading art and design schools.
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 Tiverton, Rhode Island - Reviews and travel information - TripAdvisor
"A slice of country on Rhode Island Sound" Boston.com / Boston Globe, Oct 24, 2004
Holding its own amongst other better-known New England areas, this part of Rhode Island offers quaint villages, historic buildings and pebble beaches.
This roadside stand is known for terrific salsa and baked goods.
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