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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-345-DD

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies - CREST (GX.22.MN00.E3R50.00)

Data Source Information: D. Abigail Renegar at the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center/ National Coral Reef Institute

Information Specialist(s): Jennifer Flannery

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Start Date: 2006-03-01

End Date: 2006-03-31

Equipment Used: Vibracorer

Information to be Derived: P. astreoides specimen

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes: The coral was slabbed into five, 4-mm-thick pieces. Xrayed and microsampled.

Location:

Port Everglades Channel, Fort Lauderdale

Boundaries
North: 26.10260426 South: 26.08332904 West: -80.1243 East: -80.10178655

Platform(s):

Publications

Busch, T.E., Flannery, J.A., Richey, J.N., Stathakopoulos, A., 2015, The relationship between the ratio of strontium to calcium and sea-surface temperature in a modern Porites astreoides coral: Implications for using P. astreoides as a paleoclimate archive: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1182, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151182.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Vibracorer --- Geology

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