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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-625-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): SeanPaul La Selle

Affiliate Investigator(s): Alan Nelson (USGS)

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): MarFac; Expedition G62-3094P

Start Port/Location: Manzanita, OR

End Port/Location: Manzanita, OR

Start Date: 2018-05-12

End Date: 2018-05-19

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: Cored at 39 locations, collected 27 samples for grain size, two 50 cm gouge cores for CT scanning and OSL dating.

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Affiliate Staff:

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Location:

Salmon River and Cannon Beach, OR

Boundaries
North: 46.00134398 South: 45.00574287 West: -124.03255463 East: -123.80589364

Platform(s):

photo of Canoe
Canoe

Publications

La Selle, S.M., Nelson, A.R., Witter, R.C., Jaffe, B.E., Gelfenbaum, G., and Padgett, J.S., 2024, Tsunami deposit data and sediment transport models from the Salmon River estuary, central Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9M86S7D.

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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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