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Field Activity Details for field activity 1980-300-FA

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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): Barbara Lidz

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

Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect coral and rock cores

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Key West, Florida

End Port/Location: Key West, Florida

Start Date: 1980-08-01

End Date: 1980-09-05

Equipment Used: Hydraulic Coring Drill

Information to be Derived: lithologic description, age

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected coral and rock cores

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This field activity was retroactively assigned.

Location:

Key West, Florida (Looe Key Reef, Key Largo, Mosquito Bank, Marquesas Key)

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Boundaries
North: 25.0733 South: 24.5484 West: -82.1192 East: -80.3933

Platform(s):

Publications

Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Toth, L.T., Mette, M.J., 2023, Sr/Ca and Linear Extension Data for a Modern Orbicella faveolata Colony From Marquesas Keys, Florida, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q01QJJ.

Joseph, A.J., Hudson, J.H., Halley, R.B., 1990, Listing of coral cores and slabs at the United States Geological Survey Coastal Center 600 4th St. South St. Petersburg FL: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-45, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9145.

Lidz, B.H., Robbin, D.M., Shinn, E.A., 1985, Holocene carbonate sedimentary petrology and facies accumulation, Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, Florida: Bulletin of Marine Science, v. 36 no. 3, pp. 672–700, URL: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1985/00000036/00000003/art00009.

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.A., Hudson, J.H., Robbin, D.M., Lidz, B.H., 1982, Spurs and grooves revisited; construction versus erosion, Looe Key Reef, Florida: In: Gomez, E.D., Birkeland, C.E., Buddemeier, R.W., Johannes, R.E., Marsh, J.A., Jr., Tsuda, R.T. (Eds.). The reef and man: proceedings of the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, Manila, Philippines, 18-22 May 1981, pp. 475–483.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Hydraulic Coring Drill --- Geology
MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980 (Sr/Ca and linear extension rates for an O. faveolata colony)

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