| Identifier | 2000-056-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | IB T-56-00-GC | ||||||||
| Purpose | Piston and gravity coring with a coring system provided by UNLV. Cores were primarily collected in Las Vegas Bay to describe sediment thickness and sediment types. | ||||||||
| Location | Lake Mead, Arizona, Nevada, United States, North America, | ||||||||
| Summary | Cores were attempted at 17 stations using a variety of coring techniques. Cores were collected at 14 stations. Some cores were collected by divers, and 3 different gravity corers were tested as well. Most cores were collected in less than 30 m water where seismic profiles showed sediments mostly to be 0.5-2 m thick. Most of these cores were 30-70 cm long. Core recovery was poor because the fine-grained unconsolidated sediment washed out of the corer as it was being brought back to the surface. Two cores were collected in the deep part of the lake (>130 m), and these cores successfully recovered 160 and 200 cm long cores. | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Ken Parolski - mobilization and electronics technician; Rick Rendigs - coring and sampling technician; VeeAnn Cross - set up the navigation system during the cruise mobilization. Project = Lake Mead Sediment Study, Lake Mead Sediment Study | ||||||||
| Related activities |
1999-014-FA: Project
2000-027-FA: Project
2001-007-FA: Project
2002-017-FA: Project
2002-069-FA: Project
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David C Twichell | ||||||
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| Affiliate principal | Mark Rudin, UNLV | ||||||
| Affiliate staff | Mark Rudin, UNLV |
| Data category: | Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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| Data type: | Navigation, Geology |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Piston corer | Geology | (no data reported) | |
| Gravity corer | Geology | (no data reported) | |
| P-code GPS | Navigation | (no data reported) |