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Field Activity Details for field activity 10CEV05

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Richard Poore

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Julie Richey

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Coring Garrison and Fisk Basins (Gulf of Mexico) for paleoceanographic reconstruction

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2010-04-11

End Date: 2010-04-20

Equipment Used: Box Corer

Information to be Derived: Box cores

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jennifer Flannery, Lisa Osterman, Richard Poore, Caitlin Reynolds, Julie Richey

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Garrison and Fisk basins, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 29.16921796 South: 25.9902237 West: -94.3889 East: -83.55588007

Platform(s):

photo of Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras

Publications

Thirumalai, K., Richey, J.N., Quinn, T.M., 2021, Holocene Evolution of SeaâSurface Temperature and Salinity in the Gulf of Mexico: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanogr Paleoclimatol, v. 36 no. 8, doi: 10.1029/2021PA004221.

Thirumalai, K., Richey, J.N., Quinn, T.M., Reynolds, C.E., 2021, Holocene sea-surface temperature and salinity in the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q5L9VU.

Thirumalai, K., Richey, J.N., Quinn, T.M., Poore, R.Z., 2014, Globigerinoides ruber morphotypes in the Gulf of Mexico: A test of null hypothesis: Scientific Reports, v. 4, doi: 10.1038/srep06018.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Box Corer --- Biology
Geology
Foram_geochemistry.zip (This file contains the downcore Mg/Ca, δ18O and δ13C measurements for the Garrison Basin (.xlsx, .csv))
Radiocarbon_dates.zip (northwestern Gulf of Mexico sediment core 2010-GB2-GC1 collected from the Garrison Basin (26.67°N, 93.92°W) at a water depth of 1776 meters (m), aboard the R/V Cape Hatteras in April 2010. This file contains the 14 raw radiocarbon dates that were used to generate the age model for this sediment core (.xlsx, .csv))

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