Field Activity 00WCE01

Identifier 00WCE01
Alternate names P-C1-00-WA
Purpose Investigate late Quaternary geologic history at entrance to Willapa Bay.
Location Pacific County, Washington including North Cove, Empire Spit, Tokeland, Washington dred Island and Cedar River., Washington
Summary Collected 27 shore and land based cores, 12 sites described in the field, one core lost and 14 core brought back for further analysis.
Info derived Core descriptions, photographs, quartz iron-staining grain count, radiocarbon dates and Luminescence dates.
Comments Core laid out on shelf and labels separately. USGS - St. Petersburg, downstairs SE corner, core lab, shelves 7 And 8. 14 split cores, one shelf is archive and one shelf is sampled.
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2000-09-20
End (port not specified) 2000-09-27
Bounds
West -128
East -116.25
North 50
South 45.25

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Morton, Bob
Crew members

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling
Data type: Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Vibracorer Geology 1
Surface grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Core descriptions Vibracorer Christopher D Reich

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity