Other ID: G-3-01-LA
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): James Flocks
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To evaluate the storage and transport of particle reactive, environmentally relevant contaminates through the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River delta complexes to the near-shore Gulf of Mexico.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana
End Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana
Start Date: 2001-05-19
End Date: 2001-05-25
Equipment Used: GPS , Vibracorer
Information to be Derived: Sediment cores will be used to evaluate the distribution and concentrations of key contaminates.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 7 vibracores along the Mississippi River and Delta.
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Lake Pontchartrain Inner Harbor Navigation Canal & Mississippi River, Louisiana
Boundaries | |||
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North: 29.32760116 | South: 28.92789473 | West: -89.35642004 | East: -88.94576311 |
Platform(s):
G.K. Gilbert |
Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Calderon, K., 2005, LASED geodatabase: a tool to manage, analyze, distribute, and archive geologic data from the Louisiana coastal zone: Digital mapping techniques '05, workshop proceedings; Open-File Report 2005-1428, U.S. Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 24-27, 2005, pp. 81–89, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1428/.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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GPS | --- | Navigation | Station Locations |
Vibracorer | --- | Geology | Core descriptions |