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Datasheets associated with borehole sampling of surficial sediments in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Federal Highways Administration Turner-Fairbanks Research Center In Situ Scour Testing Device

Dates

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Start Date
2015-08-04
End Date
2018-11-09

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Chirico, P.G., DeWitt, J.D., and Bergstresser, S.E., 2021, Datasheets associated with borehole sampling of surficial sediments in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Federal Highways Administration Turner-Fairbanks Research Center In Situ Scour Testing Device: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://doi.org/10.5066/P9A8G5LQ.

Summary

This spreadsheet contains the results of open-bore auger samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in Maryland and Virginia for the Federal Highways Administration Turner-Fairbanks Highway Research Center. 19 sites were selected in 14 different locations across northern Virginia and southern Maryland by FBGC scientists to drill boreholes for the development of the TFHRC’s In-situ Scour Testing Device (ISTD) and to investigate the sedimentological properties of different layers of the near-surface soil column. Each worksheet in this excel workbook contains the detailed log information for one site, including its name, gps coordinates, surface elevation, borehole depth, information about the drilling rig used to collect the sample, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Pete G Chirico, U.S. Geological Survey, Northeast Region
Originator :
Pete G Chirico, Jessica D Dewitt, Sarah E Bergstresser
Metadata Contact :
Pete G Chirico, U.S. Geological Survey, Northeast Region
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems

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USGS_borehole_data_for_FHWA-TFHRC.xml
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View 		31.23 KB application/fgdc+xml
USGS_borehole_data_for_FHWA-TFHRC.xlsx
“Borehole records” 		116.92 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

From 2014 to 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Florence Bascom Geoscience Center (FBGC) entered into an inter-agency agreement with the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner-Fairbank Research Center (TFHRC) to assist in field site selection and auger drilling fieldwork. The TFHRC was developing a device to measure the erosional properties of clay-rich soils to be used for in-situ testing at locations of bridge pier construction. This data release publishes the bore hole logs and other field data collected during the project.

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