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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-305-CNT

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Data Source Information: South Atlantic Water Science Center

Information Specialist(s): Marci Marot

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Start Date: 2018-05-21

End Date: 2018-05-25

Equipment Used: Gravity Corer

Information to be Derived: Specific activity of Pb-210, Ra-226, and Cs-137

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 86 subsections from 10 sediment cores collected near Buford Dam in Lake Lanier, Georgia

Notes: Publications:
Riley, J.W., Fitzgerald, S.A., Wilson, J.T., and Calhoun, D.L., 2019, Concentration of chemical constituents in lake sediments from select coring locations on Lake Lanier, Georgia, May, 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P920L16R.

Location:

Lake Lanier, Georgia

Boundaries
North: 34.1017 South: 34.0919 West: -84.0348 East: -84.0129

Platform(s):

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Gravity CorerSamples at SPCMSC for laboratory analysis only Geology

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