AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other)
Principal Investigator(s): Amy East
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Amy East
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Evaluate sediment properties and accumulation rates in area of proposed solar array development.
Vehicle(s): Explorer G62-2733K
Start Port/Location: Blythe, CA
End Port/Location: Blythe, CA
Start Date: 2019-11-11
End Date: 2020-09-30
Equipment Used: Other, Hand-grab sample
Information to be Derived: Grain size of surface and subsurface sediment. Age of subsurface sediment by OSL dating. Measurements of wind speed, direction, rainfall from weather station deployment.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Weather data and stratigraphic/sedimentologic data are written up (in press with SPN as of Jan 2021) as product IP-124276. A separate data release will also be made (not yet created) for archiving all data.
Staff: Other
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: OFA funded work (BLM).
TBD where samples will be housed.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-689-FA
Location:
Chuckwalla Valley, Riverside County, California
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 33.60775712 | South: 33.49101672 | West: -114.94104443 | East: -114.72953343 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
Gray, H.J., and East, A.E., 2021, Luminescence, weather, and grain-size data from eastern Chuckwalla Valley, Riverside County, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9LZ02E4.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Hand-grab sample | --- | Biology Chemistry Geology |
