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Field Activity Details for field activity 2005-305-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): Eugene A. Shinn, Noreen Buster

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect sediment cores

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Start Date: 2005-01-01

End Date: 2005-01-01

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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. A donated data field activity was assigned since the collecting agency and/or principal investigator(s) could not be identified. Field activity dates are based on the values from the date_collected field for the samples within the SPCMSC samples database.

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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