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Sedimentary data from the lower Pearl River, Louisiana, USA

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-09-15
End Date
2015-09-18

Citation

McCloskey, T.A., Smith, C.G., Liu, K.-B., Nelson, P.R., McBride, E.C., and Stoneburner, S.A., 2018, Sedimentary data from the lower Pearl River, Louisiana, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y2R3LV.

Summary

Scientists from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center investigated the sedimentary and geochemical properties of the lower reaches of the Pearl River in eastern Louisiana by collecting estuarine, riverine and marsh sediments. This was done in order to increase understanding of the region's environmental history, quantify the deposition associated with Hurricane Katrina, identify the subsequent changes in the deposited sediments and assess the effects of this deposition on marsh sustainability. To this end, the group obtained long sediment cores, shovel-dug sediment slabs and marsh and riverine channel/estuarine surface samples from a north-south transect along the river edge from the low-salinity [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Christopher G Smith
Process Contact :
Nancy T DeWitt, Christopher G Smith, Marci E Marot, Christopher E Bernhardt
Originator :
Terrence A McCloskey, Christopher G Smith, Kam-biu Liu, Paul R Nelson, Elsie C McBride, Shelby A Stoneburner
Metadata Contact :
Christopher G Smith
SDC Data Owner :
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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BioMarkers.csv 1,000 Bytes text/csv
CorePhotos.zip 103.51 MB application/zip
CTD.csv 4.83 KB text/csv
FieldLogs.pdf 486.07 KB application/pdf
GrabSamples-LOI.csv 647 Bytes text/csv
GrainSize.zip 205.89 KB application/zip
Locations-PR.csv 1.39 KB text/csv
LOI-XRF-Figures.zip 4.32 MB application/zip
Map.jpg thumbnail 4.21 MB image/jpeg
MetaData-McCloskey.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		90.48 KB application/fgdc+xml
PR102D-Gamma.csv 3.05 KB text/csv
PR102R-LOI.csv 32.91 KB text/csv
PR102R-RadiocarbonDates.csv 744 Bytes text/csv
SedimentaryPhysicalParameters.csv 2.44 KB text/csv
Slabs-LOI.csv 8.21 KB text/csv
StableIsotopes.csv 2.15 KB text/csv
XRF.zip 270.26 KB application/zip

Purpose

Dissemination of processed sediment data from sediment cores, slabs and surface samples collected from the margins of the lower Pearl River, Louisiana, in September, 2015 (USGS FAN 2015-328-FA).
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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9Y2R3LV

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