Field Activity 1980-300-FA

Identifier 1980-300-FA
Purpose Collect coral and rock cores
Location Key West, Florida (Looe Key Reef, Key Largo, Mosquito Bank, Marquesas Key)
Summary Collected coral and rock cores
Info derived lithologic description, age
Comments This field activity was retroactively assigned.
Itinerary
Start Key West, Florida 1980-08-01
End Key West, Florida 1980-09-05
Bounds
West -82.1192
East -80.3933
North 25.0733
South 24.5484

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Barbara H Lidz
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Lauren T Toth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Eugene Shinn (USGS SPCMSC), Harold Hudson (USGS SPCMSC)

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling
Data type: Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Hydraulic Coring Drill Geology 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
MK1_Sr_Ca_LER_1830_1980 Hydraulic Coring Drill Sr/Ca and linear extension rates for an O. faveolata colony Jennifer A. Flannery

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
USGS Archive of Computed tomography (CT) Scans of Coral Cores Hydraulic Coring Drill This data release presents computed tomography (CT) imagery generated from coral core samples curated within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coral-Core Archive. These data were collected as part of ongoing USGS coral-reef research activities and include samples originating from multiple locations and collection efforts. A Geotek Rotating X-ray CT (RXCT) system was used to acquire x-ray images and perform CT reconstructions of archived coral cores. The full three-dimensional CT dataset consists of individual axial slices which are reconstructed images in TIFF format. These axial slices are oriented perpendicular to the long axis of the core. Two-dimensional orthogonal views are also provided that illustrate representative downcore slabs of each core. Geotek software-proprietary XML files are provided in each folder containing axial slices and orthogonal views, containing more image-scaling and information on x-ray system settings and reconstruction parameters. This data release allows future expansions of the archive to incorporate CT imagery scanned under the same consistent methodology from additional coral cores, locations, and collection efforts. Ferdinand K Oberle

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity