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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-643-FA

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AKA: none

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): Guy Gelfenbaum

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): SeanPaul La Selle

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To characterize the spatial characteristics of tsunami deposits in coastal WA

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Neah Bay, WA

End Port/Location: Neah Bay, WA

Start Date: 2016-05-17

End Date: 2016-05-23

Equipment Used: Gouge Cores, hand auger, Hand-grab sample, Peat Auger, digitalcamera, Handheld GPS Nomad, push cores

Information to be Derived: Grain size, deposit thickness

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Cores, photos, and locations were collected.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: staff was never assigned

Location:

Waatch Valley, WA

Boundaries
North: 48.5 South: 47 West: -125 East: -124

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Gouge Cores --- Geology
hand auger --- Geology
Hand-grab sample --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Peat Auger --- Geology
digitalcamera --- Photo
Handheld GPS Nomad --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
push cores --- Geology

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