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Temperature and geophysical data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA (ver. 2.0, March 2020)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2010-10-01
End Date
2018-04-27
Revision
2020-03-05

Citation

Briggs, M.A., Scruggs, C.R., Hurley, S.T., Hull, R., and White, E.A., 2018, Temperature and geophysical data collected along the Quashnet River, Mashpee/Falmouth MA (ver. 2.0, March 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PN93QF.

Summary

The temperature and surface geophysical data contained in this release have primarily been collected to support groundwater/surface water methods development, and to characterize the hydrogeological controls on native brook trout habitat. All data have been collected since 2010 along the Quashnet River corridor located on Cape Cod, MA, USA. Cape Cod is a peninsula in southeastern coastal Massachusetts, USA, composed primarily of highly permeable unconsolidated glacial moraine and outwash deposits. The largest of the Cape Cod sole-source aquifers occupies a western (landward) section of the peninsula, and is incised by several linear valleys that drain groundwater south to the Atlantic Ocean via baseflow-dominated streams. Strong groundwater [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
Martin A Briggs
Originator :
Martin A Briggs, C R Scruggs, S T Hurley, E A White
Metadata Contact :
Martin A Briggs
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Office of Planning and Programming

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Quashnet_Metadata_General.xml
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Version 2.0.txt 877 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

There are multiple purposes for which this data has been collected, though they all relate to the characterization of physical groundwater/surface water exchange processes. Surface geophysical data are typically to spatially map shallow geologic structure and pore water electrical conductivity. Temperature data collected in the water column are used to locate groundwater discharge zones and understand stream channel heat fluxes. Streambed temperature data are used for a variety of purposes, including the estimation of saturated thermal properties and vertical water fluxes.
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Revision 2.0 by Martin Briggs on March 5, 2020. To review the changes that were made, see “Version 2.0.txt” in the attached files section.

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