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Field Activity Details for field activity 2003-306-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): Lisa Osterman

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect box and piston sediment cores

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana

Start Date: 2003-06-18

End Date: 2003-06-20

Equipment Used:

Information to be Derived: Faunal assemblage, geochronology

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 5 box cores. Required 3 drops, with 2 subcores per drop.

Staff: Nancy DeWitt, Marci Marot, Christopher Reich

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Notes:

Location:

Louisiana Shelf - Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.1 South: 28.6 West: -90.5 East: -89.6

Platform(s):

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Longhorn

Publications

Osterman, L.E., Kelly, W.S., Ricardo, J.P., 2008, Benthic foraminiferal census data from Louisiana continental shelf cores, Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1348, 16 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081348.

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