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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-657-DD

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AKA: none

Other ID: Bay toll crossing

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Data Source Information: Caltrans

Information Specialist(s): Mary McGann

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

Start Date: 1965-01-01

End Date: 1980-12-31

Equipment Used: navigation, core

Information to be Derived: physical core samples

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 30 pallets of cores in 1030 OBrien warehouse

Notes: Sample locations digitized from publication; data on FAD
Selby cores taken in preparation for Bay Bridge pier locations.

Location:

San Francisco Bay, California

Boundaries
North: 37.8342008 South: 37.4472521 West: -122.48464336 East: -122.0231827

Platform(s):

photo of Barge
Barge

Publications

Atwater, B.F., Hedel, C.H., and Helley, E.J., 1977, Late Quaternary Depositional History, Holocene Sea-Level Changes, and Vertical Crustal Movement, Southern San Francisco Bay, California: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1014.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
navigation --- Navigation
core --- Biology
Geology

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