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Field Activity Details for field activity 2010-604-FA

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AKA: La Trinchera, Chile

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record (ZP00ES5)

Principal Investigator(s): Bruce Jaffe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Michaela Spiske

Information Specialist(s): SeanPaul La Selle

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: collect grainsize data on tsunami deposits

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2010-04-13

End Date: 2010-04-13

Equipment Used: Hand-grab sample

Information to be Derived: grainsize

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: FAN requested for grainsize analysis

Location:

La Trinchera, Chile

Boundaries
North: -34.14022501 South: -35.14579814 West: -72.25708008 East: -71.72924805

Platform(s):

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on foot

Publications

Morton, R.A., Gelfenbaum, G., Buckley, M.L and Richmond, B.M., 2011, Geological effects and implications of the 2010 tsunami along the central coast of Chile: Sedimentary Geology, v. 242, pp. 34–51.

Morton, R.A., Gelfenbaum, G., Buckley, M.L., Richmond, B.M., 2011, Geological effects and implications of the 2010 tsunami along the central coast of Chile: Sedimentary Geology, v. 242, pp. 34–51, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.09.004.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Hand-grab sample --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology

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