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Field Activity Details for field activity 1990-303-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):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Harold Hudson (USGS SPCMSC), Robert Halley (USGS SPCMSC)

Information Specialist(s): Lauren Toth

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect cores and rock core to determine its internal anatomy and age

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Key West, Florida

End Port/Location: Key West, Florida

Start Date: 1990-08-01

End Date: 1990-08-27

Equipment Used:

Information to be Derived: lithologic description, age

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 4 rock cores and 5 coral cores in the Florida Keys

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Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Key West, FL (Fowey Rocks Outlier Reef, Pickles Reef, and Sand Key Reef)

Boundaries
North: 25.5906 South: 24.2663 West: -81.8517 East: -80.0967

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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.

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., Precht, W.F., Modys, A.B., Stathakopoulos, A., 2020, Radiometric ages and descriptive data for Holocene corals from southeast Florida: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Z21NMU.

Toth, L.T., Precht, W.F., Modys, A.B., Stathakopoulos, A., Robbart, M.L., Hudson, J.H., Oleinik, A.E., Riegl, B.M., Shinn, E.A., Aronson, R.B., 2021, Climate and the latitudinal limits of subtropical reef development: Scientific Reports, Sci Rep, v. 11 no. 1, 13044 p., doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-87883-8.

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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