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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-302-CNT

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Other ID: VIMS Coleman Contract Samples

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Estuary and Marsh Geology - EMRG (Spatial) (GX.24.MN00.M1D10.00)

Data Source Information: VIMS

Information Specialist(s): Alisha Ellis, Christopher Smith

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Start Date: 2016-05-18

End Date: 2016-07-18

Equipment Used: Push Corer

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 3- 75cm marsh push cores

Notes: Samples collected by VIMS and submitted to USGS SPCMSC for alpha and gamma spectroscopy.

Location:

Virginia and Massachusetts marsh

Boundaries
North: 42.732 South: 37.2808 West: -75.8796 East: -70.8414

Platform(s):

Publications

Everhart, C.S., Smith, C.G., Ellis, A.M., Marot, M.E., Coleman, D.J., Guntenspergen, G.R., Kirman, M.L., 2020, Sediment radiochemical data from Georgia, Massachusetts, and Virginia Coastal Marshes: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P926MS6T.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Push Corer --- Geology
SiteInformation (Site location)
LossOnIgnition (Sediment loss on ignition data)
AlphaSpectrometry (Sediment radiochemical data by alpha spectrometry)
GammaSpectrometry (Sediment radiochemical data by gamma spectrometry)

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