| Identifier | 2004-309-FA | ||||||
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| Purpose | To collect vibracores | ||||||
| Location | Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana | ||||||
| Summary | During the summer of 2004, eight sediment vibracores were collected in the DNWR. Three of the vibracores were collected using the U.S.G.S. R/V G.K. Gilbert’s vibracoring system, which is capable of collecting cores up to 6.1 m in length. However, because of the shallow water over the delta, a shallow-draft aluminum boat was used to complete the vibracore field survey. Coring was accomplished using 9.1-m aluminum vibracore pipe and a modified Dreyer gasoline concrete vibrator. | ||||||
| Info derived | photographed and sampled for grain-size analysis. Vibracores BBNWR-04 and 07 were subsampled within each sedimentary facies for cesium-isotope dating. Grain-size samples were collected within each sedimentary facies. Grain-size analyses were performed using a Coulter LS 200 particle-size analyzer that uses laser diffraction to measure the size distribution of particles from 0.4 µm to 2000 mm. | ||||||
| Comments | This field activity was retroactively created from information in the SPCMSC samples database and publication: https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70185069 | ||||||
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| Vehicles | Unknown |
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| Organization |
USGS, National Wetlands Research Center(NWRC)
Lafayette, LA
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University of New Orleans(UNO)
New Orleans, LA
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| Organization |
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
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| Principal investigators | Jack L KindingerJames G FlocksFerina, Nick |
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| Affiliate principal | Miner, MD., UNO; Chadwick, P.C., USGS National Wetlands Research Center |
| Data category: | Sampling |
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| Data type: | Geology |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Vibracorer | Geology | (no data reported) |
