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Field Activity Details for field activity 00WCE01

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Other ID: P-C1-00-WA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

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Principal Investigator(s): Bob Morton

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Investigate late Quaternary geologic history at entrance to Willapa Bay.

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Start Date: 2000-09-20

End Date: 2000-09-27

Equipment Used: Vibracorer, Surface grab sampler

Information to be Derived: Core descriptions, photographs, quartz iron-staining grain count, radiocarbon dates and Luminescence dates.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 27 shore and land based cores, 12 sites described in the field, one core lost and 14 core brought back for further analysis.

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Notes: Core laid out on shelf and labels separately.
USGS - St. Petersburg, downstairs SE corner, core lab, shelves 7
And 8. 14 split cores, one shelf is archive and one shelf is sampled.

Location:

Pacific County, Washington including North Cove, Empire Spit, Tokeland, Washington dred Island and Cedar River., Washington

Boundaries
North: 50 South: 45.25 West: -128 East: -116.25

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Morton, R.A., Purcell, N.A., Peterson, R.L., Gelfenbaum, G.R., and Ruggiero, P., 2002, Large-scale cycles of Holocene deposition and erosion at the entrance to Willapa Bay, Washington; implications for future land loss and coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0046, 124 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/0046/report.pdf.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Vibracorer --- Geology
Core descriptions
Surface grab sampler --- Biology
Geology

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