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Field Activity Details for field activity 2001-300-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): Noreen Buster

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect sediment cores

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Start Date: 2001-05-01

End Date: 2001-05-01

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Information to be Derived: Accelerator mass spectrometry, Carbon-12 ages, X-ray diffraction, carbonate mineralogy, spectrometer- isotopic analyses

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected sediment cores

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Notes: This field activity was retroactively created and assigned based on information from the SPCMSC samples database and known related publications. Field activity dates are based on the values from the date_collected field for the samples within the SPCMSC samples database. Gene Shinn was also associated with this field activity.

Location:

Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize

Boundaries
North: 17.31604722 South: 17.31604722 West: -87.53521111 East: -87.53521111

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Publications

Gischler, E., Shinn, E.A., Oschmann, W., Fiebig, J., Buster, N.A., 2008, A 1500-year Holocene Caribbean climate archive from the Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 24, pp. 1495–1505, doi: 10.2112/07-0891.1.

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