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Physico-chemical characteristics and sediment and nutrient fluxes of floodplains, streambanks, and streambeds in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2013-07-16
End Date
2018-06-21

Citation

Noe, G.B., Hupp, C.R., Schenk, E.R., Doody, T.R., and Hopkins, K.G., 2020, Physico-chemical characteristics and sediment and nutrient fluxes of floodplains, streambanks, and streambeds in the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QLJYPX.

Summary

Dataset includes site averages of measurements of floodplain and streambank sediment physico-chemistry and long-term (dendrogeomorphic) vertical and lateral geomorphic change, and reach scale floodplain width, streambank height, channel width, and streambed particle size. This information was used to calculate fluxes of sediment, fine sediment, sediment-C, sediment-N, and sediment-C of floodplains and of streambanks at each site. Sixty-eight sites were sampled in the USGS Chesapeake and Delaware Floodplain Network. Sites were chosen to have largely unmodified geomorphology, permission to access, and presence of woody vegetation to enable the dendrogeomorphic technique.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Gregory Noe
Originator :
Gregory Noe, Cliff R Hupp, Edward R Schenk, Thomas R Doody, Kristina G Hopkins
Metadata Contact :
Gregory Noe
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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USGS CFDN metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		92.35 KB application/fgdc+xml
ChesDE_sites_physio_overview_withDAs.jpg
“Locations of field sites and their upstream drainage areas” 		thumbnail 2.85 MB image/jpeg
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“Licking Creek, Maryland” 		thumbnail 9.41 MB image/jpeg
USGS CFDN site means.csv 39.22 KB text/csv

Purpose

Data were collected to measure the fluxes of sediment and nutrients for floodplains and streambanks, and reach geomorphometry and streambed characteristics, of the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River watersheds
Locations of field sites and their upstream drainage areas
Locations of field sites and their upstream drainage areas

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  • Chesapeake and Delaware Floodplain Network
  • USGS Chesapeake Bay
  • USGS Data Release Products

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9QLJYPX

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