Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Jack Kindinger, Jennifer Miselis
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Jack Kindinger
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geomorphology, Geology, Island Evolution
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS
End Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS
Start Date: 2010-08-04
End Date: 2010-08-10
Equipment Used: GPS , Vibracorer
Information to be Derived: Approximately 6-10 vibracores will be collected to help determine the island stratigraphy and depth to Pleistocene surface.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Kyle Kelso
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Shop Time: Nancy Dewitt prepared 5 and 8 hp shakers, head and repaired shaker to pipe clamp. Site location: Onshore core sites were reconned on July 12th
Location:
MS Barrier Islands
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.35743845 | South: 30.15172271 | West: -89.4225 | East: -87.98464581 |
Platform(s):
Mako | Mudlump |
Buster, N.A., Kelso, K.W., Miselis, J.L., Kindinger, J.L., 2014, Sediment data collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 834, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds834.
Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., Kindinger, J.L., 2014, Refining the link between the Holocene development of the Mississippi River Delta and the geologic evolution of Cat Island, MS: implications for delta-associated barrier islands: Marine Geology, v. 355, pp. 274–290, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.021.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Vibracorer | --- | Geology | OSL_Table (terrestrial vibracore Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) data) 10BIM03_Terrestrial_core_logs_pdfs (terrestrial vibracore logs (description, photo)) Cat_Island_GIS_Data_Catalog_Vibracore_DS (marine and terrestrial GIS dataset (DS 834)) 10BIM03_Terrestrial_core_locations (terrestrial vibracore sample locations (GIS and table)) |
