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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-643-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: Salmon River

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): SeanPaul La Selle

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): SeanPaul La Selle

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To map out, sample, and date tsunami deposits and subsidence events from past Cascadia earthquakes.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Lincoln City, OR

End Port/Location: Lincoln City, OR

Start Date: 2017-07-13

End Date: 2017-07-19

Equipment Used: camera, Handheld GPS, Hand-grab sample, Push corer

Information to be Derived: deposit thickness, grain size, ct scans, radiocarbon ages

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 38 sediment samples for grain size analysis, radiocarbon dating, and OSL dating. Shallow stratigraphy of 106 cores was described.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Salmon River, OR

Boundaries
North: 45.05857742 South: 45.00185887 West: -124.0215683 East: -123.92674325

Platform(s):

photo of Canoe
Canoe

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
camera --- Photo
Handheld GPS --- Navigation
Hand-grab sample --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Push corer --- Surveys (geochemical)
Surveys (biological)
Biology
Geology

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