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Field Activity Details for field activity 2000-056-FA

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Other ID: IB T-56-00-GC

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): David Twichell

Affiliate Investigator(s): Mark Rudin, UNLV

Information Specialist(s): David Twichell

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Piston and gravity coring with a coring system provided by UNLV. Cores were primarily collected in Las Vegas Bay to describe sediment thickness and sediment types.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Lake Mead Marina, NPS facility

End Port/Location: Lake Mead Marina, NPS facility

Start Date: 2000-07-11

End Date: 2000-07-18

Equipment Used: Piston corer, Gravity corer, P-code GPS

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Cores were attempted at 17 stations using a variety of coring techniques. Cores were collected at 14 stations. Some cores were collected by divers, and 3 different gravity corers were tested as well. Most cores were collected in less than 30 m water where seismic profiles showed sediments mostly to be 0.5-2 m thick. Most of these cores were 30-70 cm long. Core recovery was poor because the fine-grained unconsolidated sediment washed out of the corer as it was being brought back to the surface. Two cores were collected in the deep part of the lake (>130 m), and these cores successfully recovered 160 and 200 cm long cores.

Staff: VeeAnn Cross, Kenneth F. Parolski, Richard Rendigs

Affiliate Staff:
Mark Rudin
UNLV

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Ken Parolski - mobilization and electronics technician; Rick Rendigs - coring and sampling technician; VeeAnn Cross - set up the navigation system during the cruise mobilization.
Project = Lake Mead Sediment Study, Lake Mead Sediment Study

Location:

Lake Mead, Arizona, Nevada, United States, North America,

Boundaries
North: 36.15 South: 36.06 West: -114.9 East: -114.7

Platform(s):


Tamarisk

Publications

Twichell, D.C., and Cross, V.A., 2009, Surficial geology of the floor of Lake Mead (Arizona and Nevada) as defined by sidescan-sonar imagery, lake-floor topography, and post-impoundment sediment thickness: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1150, CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091150.

Twichell, D.C., Cross, V.A., and Belew, S.D., 2004, Mapping the floor of Lake Mead (Nevada and Arizona)—Preliminary discussion and GIS data release: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-320, DVD, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr03320.

Twichell, D.C., Cross, V.A., Rudin, M.J., and Parolski, K.F., 2000, Surficial geology and distribution of post-impoundment sediment of the western part of Lake Mead based on a sidescan sonar and high-resolution seismic-reflection survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-581, 28 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr99581.

Twichell, D.C., Cross, V.A., Rudin, M.J., Parolski, K.F., and Rendigs, R.R., 2001, Surficial geology and distribution of post-impoundment sediment in Las Vegas Bay, Lake Mead: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-70, 27 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr0170.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Piston corer --- Geology
Gravity corer --- Geology
P-code GPS --- Navigation

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