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Field Activity Details for field activity 2011-300-DD

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Anastasios Stathakopoulos

Affiliate Investigator(s): Coral cores collected and donated by Nova Southeastern University

Information Specialist(s): Anastasios Stathakopoulos

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To perform radiometric dating on collected coral cores to better understand the accretion history and composition of submerged relict reefs offshore of continental southeast Florida.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Florida

End Port/Location: Florida

Start Date: 2011-03-24

End Date: 2012-05-07

Equipment Used: Hydraulic Coring Drill

Information to be Derived: Coral radiometric ages

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Nova Southeastern University collected 16 coral cores from 2011 to 2012.

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Notes: Publications:

Stathakopoulos, A., Riegl, B.M., 2015, Accretion history of mid-Holocene coral reefs from the southeast Florida continental reef tract, USA. Coral Reefs 34, 173–187, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-014-1233-3

Stathakopoulos, Anastasios, and Toth, L.T., 2019, South Florida Holocene coral sea-level database: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P98QFBJ3

Location:

South Florida Continental Reef Tract, Florida, USA

Boundaries
North: 26.125411 South: 26.054835 West: -80.097833 East: -80.091961

Platform(s):

Publications

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Hydraulic Coring Drill --- Geology

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