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Field Activity Details for field activity 10BIM06

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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): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geomorphology, Geology, Island Evolution

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS

End Port/Location: Biloxi, MS or Gulfport, MS

Start Date: 2010-09-30

End Date: 2010-10-10

Equipment Used: Vibracorer

Information to be Derived: Geologic framework to determine the island geomorphology, stratigraphy and geologic history.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Kyle Kelso, Richard Young

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Vibracorer Model: Rossfelder P-3

Location:

Mississippi Barrier Islands, Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 30.36096069 South: 30.13262532 West: -89.5701 East: -88.44948168

Platform(s):

photo of G.K. Gilbert
G.K. Gilbert

Publications

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.

Kindinger, J.L., Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., 2014, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore from Cat Island, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1070, 83 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141070.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Vibracorer --- Geology
Cat_Island_GIS_Data_Catalog_Vibracore_DS (marine and terrestrial GIS dataset (DS 834))
C14_Table (marine vibracore radiocarbon data)
10BIM06_Marine_core_locations (marine vibracore sample locations )
10BIM06_Marine_core_logs_pdfs (marine vibracore logs (description, photo, grain size))
Grainsize_SummaryStatistics (marine vibracore grain size analysis)
10BIM06_GrainSize_Gradistat (marine vibracore GRADISTAT files)

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