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Field Activity Details for field activity 98FLL01

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Other ID: B-1-98-FL

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Nancy DeWitt

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sediment samples from the lake for lithology analysis.

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Start Date: 1998-05-20

End Date: 1998-05-20

Equipment Used: Vibracorer, GPS

Information to be Derived: Lithology, grainsize, Percent total organic content, Percent total carbonate content, Percent Sand, photographs, microscope photographs, x-ray.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Stratigraphic interpretations, photographs, and subsamples for lab analysis of sediment parameters such as grain size, percent total organic carbon, percent calcium carbonate content, percent sand, x-rays of layering

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Notes: Floating drilling platform and small johnboat.

Location:

Lake Brooklyn in Keystone Heights, Florida

Boundaries
North: 30.33162 South: 30.3215 West: -81.9424 East: -81.68778

Platform(s):


Unknown

Publications

DeWitt, N.T., The Depositional History of Three Freshwater Lakes in North Central Florida: Brooklyn Lake, Levys Prairie, and Cowpen Lake: University of South Florida College of Marine Science, thesis.

U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, USGS science in Florida: Proceedings of Florida integrated science center meeting, Orlando, Florida, May 3-5, 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1213, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051213.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Vibracorer --- Geology
Core descriptions
GPS --- Navigation
Nav data

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