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Long-term soil carbon data and accretion from four marsh types in Mississippi River Delta in 2015

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Publication Date
Start Date
2015-02-01
End Date
2015-07-06

Citation

Baustian, M.M., Stagg, C.L., Perry, C.L., Moss, L.C., Carruthers, T.J.B., Allison, M.A., and Hall, C.T., 2021, Long-term soil carbon data and accretion from four marsh types in Mississippi River Delta in 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93U3B3E.

Summary

The Mississippi River Deltaic Plain has extensive marsh habitats (fresh, intermediate, brackish, and saline) where soil cores were collected to a depth of 100 cm at 24 sites to assess long-term carbon accumulation rates and coast-wide burial rates. Each core was sectioned into 2-cm depth intervals, and select intervals were analyzed for percent moisture, bulk density, total carbon, and radionuclide (137Cs and 210Pb).

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Melissa M Baustian
Originator :
Melissa M Baustian, Camille L Stagg, Carey L Perry, Leland C Moss, Tim J B Carruthers, Mead A Allison, Courtney T Hall
Metadata Contact :
Camille L Stagg
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Longterm_soil_carbon_data_and_accretion_from_four_marsh_types_in_Mississippi_River_Delta_in_2015.xml
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Baustian_Long_Term_Radionuclide.csv 12.01 MB text/csv
Baustian_Long_Term_Site_History.csv 618 Bytes text/csv
Baustian_Long_Term_Carbon_Soil.csv 5.97 KB text/csv

Purpose

These data help to estimate the pools of buried carbon in the soil.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P93U3B3E

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