The STRATAFORM project is looking into understanding (i.e., modelling) margin stratigraphy on time scales from individual storm events to units representing 10s of thousands of years.
Description
Chief Scientists: John Barber, Pete Dartnell, Dave Drake. Geological data (boxcore) of field activity W-1-95-NC in Russian and Eel Rivers, California from 02/08/1995 to 02/18/1995
Location
California
Summary
Heavy January rains on the west coast led to record river and sediment discharges. From 8 February to 18 February, John Barber, Pete Dartnell and Dave Drake took our NEL box corer and joined the "Rapid Response Sampling Team" of the ONR-funded STRATAFORM project aboard the R/V WECOMA of Oregon State University for a box coring binge on the shelf off the Russian and Eel Rivers. A dozen scientists, students and technicians managed to hammer out about 90 box cores of the 1995 flood sediment on those shelves. The Eel shelf proved to be a bonanza with reddish-tan flood sediment forming a layer up to 10 cm thick on the mid-shelf. Many of the benthic organisms had been covered so rapidly that they had apparently suffocated.
Comments
1995 WEST COAST FLOOD DEPOSITS: This field effort was a first step in a multiyear project which involves Mike Field, Jim Gardner, Homa Lee, Dave Cacchione and Dave Drake from USGS as well as a host of scientists from universities, industry and the Navy.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
John Barber (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Pete Dartnell (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dave Drake (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
