{
    "tag": 17575,
    "title": "Collection, Analysis, and Age-Dating of Sediment Cores from Salt Marshes on the South Shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, From 2013 Through 2014",
    "pubdate": "2018",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": null,
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_F7H41QPP\/Waquoit_Core_data_release_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "The accretion history of fringing microtidal salt marshes located on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was reconstructed from sediment cores collected in low and high marsh vegetation zones. The location of these marshes within protected embayments and the absence of large rivers on Cape Cod result in minimal sediment supply and a dominance of organic matter contribution to sediment peat. Age models based on 210-lead and 137-cesium were constructed to evaluate how vertical accretion and carbon burial rates have changed over the past century. The continuous rate of supply age model was used to age date 11 cores (10 low marsh and 1 high marsh) across four salt marshes. Both vertical accretion rates and carbon burial increased from 1900 to the years of collection, 2013 and 2014. Elevation of the marsh surface was measured to evaluate where the marsh falls within the current tidal frame. The historic marsh surface elevation was then reconstructed from the calculated age of each depth interval and its elevation, assuming that elevations within this shallow zone (less than 30 centimeters) have been preserved for the past century.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Gonneea, Meagan Eagle",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "O'Keefe Suttles, Jennifer A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kroeger, Kevin D.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1420",
            "name": "carbon",
            "scope": "Nonmetal element with symbol C and atomic number 6 <http:\/\/periodic.lanl.gov\/6.shtml>"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "142",
            "name": "carbon isotope analysis",
            "scope": "Experimental determination of the proportion of a given stable carbon isotope (C12 or C13) in a sample."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1522",
            "name": "nitrogen",
            "scope": "Nonmetal element with symbol N and atomic number 7 <http:\/\/periodic.lanl.gov\/7.shtml>"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2062",
            "name": "piston coring",
            "scope": "Use of a piston mechanism and a weight with a triggering mechanism to drive a coring tube deep into underwater sediments for extraction and study."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "954",
            "name": "radiometric dating",
            "scope": "Methods for age determination of rocks and fossils by measuring the proportions of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes to their decay products."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1028",
            "name": "sea-level change",
            "scope": "Variation in the relative vertical position of land and ocean waters. Caused globally by changes in the distribution of ice masses and the shape of the oceans, and locally by the rate of uplift or subsidence of the land surface.  Includes both global (eustatic) and local (relative) sea-level variations."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1036",
            "name": "sedimentation",
            "scope": "Process of deposition of sediments (loose, uncemented pieces of rock, mineral fragments, or biological materials).  The sediments settle out of water or air into layers on a surface."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1078",
            "name": "soil chemistry",
            "scope": "Branch of chemistry concerned with the elements and compounds that make up soils. Includes chemical processes involving soils."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "013",
            "name": "location",
            "scope": "Positional information and services, for example addresses, geodetic networks, geodetic control points, postal zones and services, place names, geographic names"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/5a748e35e4b00f54eb19f96c\/?name=Saltmarsh_AR.jpg",
            "description": "Browse graphic showing a plot of the accretion rates at each of the core locations."
        }
    ],
    "fan": [
        "2013-061-FA",
        "2014-073-FA"
    ]
}