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Field Activity Details for field activity 00SCC05

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Other ID: G-4-00-LA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of New Orleans, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Characterization of the Geological Framework, Mapping sediment distribution, and locating offshore sand resources.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Grand Isle, Louisiana

End Port/Location: Grand Isle, Louisiana

Start Date: 2000-07-04

End Date: 2000-07-26

Equipment Used: Vibracorer, GPS

Information to be Derived: Vibracores used to derive high-resolution sedimentation distribution and thickness; to locate sand deposits to be used in Louisiana beach renourishment projects.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Summary and evaluation of data is reference in U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-384 of September 2000. Open File Report 01-384

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: These FACS logs were generated by Chandra Dreher in June of 2003, using
the handwritten logbooks and personal accounts of the scientist and crewmembers.
This cruise 00SCC05 contains vibracore samples BSS00-142 through BSS00-227 of
the 227 vibracores collected during this project.

Samples BSS00 and 00SS are stored at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans,
LA (contact Phil McCarty pmccarty@uno.edu)

Location:

Barataria Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico - Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.55578238 South: 28.80271381 West: -90.47923565 East: -89.37362909

Platform(s):

photo of G.K. Gilbert
G.K. Gilbert

Publications

Dreher, C., Flocks, J.G., Ferina, N., Kulp, M.A., 2008, Archive of sediment-vibracore data collected from Sandy Point to Belle Pass, Louisiana, 1983 through 2001 (surveys: 00SCC00, 83CR00, and 86P00): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 344, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds344.

Flocks, J.G., 2004, Converting analog interpretive data to digital formats for use in database and GIS applications: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1070, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041070.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Vibracorer --- Geology
Core descriptions
GPS --- Navigation

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