The overall program long-term goal of STRATAFORM is to advance our understanding of the development of stratigraphic units and sequences on continental shelves and upper continental slopes. In this specific project we will obtain high quality measurements of sediment transport in the benthic boundary layer during energetic storms and during periods of high sediment input from coastal rivers (floods) for use in developing and testing models which predict the emplacement and modifications to discrete depositional units.
Description
Chief Scientist: George Tate. Geoprobe Deployment data (Geoprobe, currentmeter, transmissometer, pressuresensor, temperature, opticalbackscattersensor, altimeter, CTDmeter, watersamples) of field activity W-4-96-NC in Northern California from 11/22/1996 to 11/22/1996
Location
Northern California
Summary
Time series (hourly) measurements of currents, waves, temperature, salinity, and suspended sediment in the bottom boundary layer (from 20 cm to 120 cm above the seabed).
Info derived
Correlations of sediment resuspension from the bed with energetic waves and currents; estimates of bottom stresses due to combined flows of waves and currents; time-series temperature and salinity data near the seabed.
Comments
Staff information imported from InfoBank
George Tate (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
