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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-302-CNT

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Data Source Information: Michael Toomey, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

Information Specialist(s): Cheyenne Everhart, Marci Marot

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Start Date: 2019-08-05

End Date: 2022-05-20

Equipment Used: Vibracorer

Information to be Derived: Dry sediment submitted for gamma analysis

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: One vibracore from Buzzards Bay sectioned at 2.5 cm intervals with 20 total subsamples. Two vibracores from Buzzards Bay sectioned at 5 cm intervals with 28 total subsamples.

Notes:

Location:

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts and Chesapeake Bay, Maryland

Boundaries
North: 41.80407814 South: 36.66841892 West: -76.59667969 East: -68.88427734

Platform(s):

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
VibracorerSamples at SPCMSC for laboratory analysis onlyGeology
No data was collected

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