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Field Activity Details for field activity 03SWL01

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

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Principal Investigator(s): Julie Bernier

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: coring

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Start Date: 2003-06-25

End Date: 2003-06-29

Equipment Used: GPS , Vibracorer

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Location:

Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 30.28367752 South: 28.84031122 West: -91.582 East: -88.16524833

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Unknown

Publications

Bernier, J.C., 2013, Trends and causes of historical wetland loss in coastal Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013-317, https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20133017.

Morton, R.A., Bernier, J.C., Barras, J.A., Ferina, N.F., 2005, Rapid subsidence and historical wetland loss in the Mississippi Delta plain; likely causes and future implications: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1216, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051216.

Reich, C., Streubert, M., Dwyer, B., Godbout, M., Muslic, A., Umberger, D., 2012, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center's core archive portal: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 626, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds626.

Wessels, S., 2010, Late Quaternary Mississippi River Incised Valley Fill: Transgressive Depositional Packages: Master's thesis. University of New Orleans. , URL: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1236.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Vibracorer --- Geology
Core descriptions

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