Other ID: P-C1-00-WA
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Bob Morton
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
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.
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
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 | |||
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North: 50 | South: 45.25 | West: -128 | East: -116.25 |
Platform(s):
on foot |
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.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Vibracorer | --- | Geology | Core descriptions |
Surface grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology |