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Field Activity Details for field activity 1976-300-FA

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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):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Eugene Shinn (USGS SPCMSC), Harold Hudson (USGS SPCMSC)

Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect coral cores throughout the Florida Keys Reef to determine its internal anatomy and age

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Key West, Florida

End Port/Location: Key West, Florida

Start Date: 1976-07-01

End Date: 1976-09-11

Equipment Used:

Information to be Derived: lithologic description, age

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 29 coral cores to determine its internal anatomy and age

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Affiliate Staff:

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Location:

Key West. FL (Dry Tortugas, Lower Keys, Upper Keys, and Biscayne)

Boundaries
North: 25.2218 South: 24.624794 West: -82.863464 East: -80.1267

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Publications

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.

Shinn, E., Hudson, J.H., Halley, R.B., Lidz, B.H., 1977, Topographic control and accumulation rate of some holocene coral reefs: South Florida and Dry Tortugas: Proceedings : Third International Coral Reef Symposium 2, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, pp. 1–7.

Toth, L., Kuffner, I.B., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., 2015, A new record of the late Pleistocene coral Pocillopora palmata from the Dry Tortugas, Florida reef tract, USA: Palaios, v. 30 no. 12, pp. 827–835, doi: 10.2110/palo.2015.030.

Toth, L.T., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Ashe, E., Richey, J.N., 2017, Local radiocarbon reservoir age (ÎR) variability from the nearshore and open-ocean environments of the Florida Keys reef tract during the Holocene and associated U-series and radiocarbon data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P8492Q.

Toth, L.T., Courtney, T.A., Colella, M.A., Kupfner Johnson, S.A., Ruzicka, R.R., 2022, The past, present, and future of coral reef growth in the Florida Keys: Global Change Biology, Glob Change Biol, v. 28 no. 17, pp. 5294–5309, doi: 10.1111/gcb.16295.

Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., 2019, The absolute and relative composition of Holocene Reef Cores from the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93XXXA0.

Toth, L.T., Stathakopoulos, A., Kuffner, I.B., 2018, Descriptive core logs, core photographs, radiocarbon ages, and accretion data from Holocene reef cores collected throughout the Florida Keys reef tract: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NV9HJX.

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