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  1. Geophysical data from the unnamed lake at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site, Bemidji, MN (ver. 2.0, June 2020)

Geophysical data from the unnamed lake at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site, Bemidji, MN (ver. 2.0, June 2020)

Dates

Start Date
2018-06-25
End Date
2019-06-29
Publication Date
Last Revision
2020-06-05

Citation

Terry, N., Bekins, B.A., Trost, J.J., and Day-Lewis, F.D., 2020, Geophysical data from the unnamed lake at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site, Bemidji, MN (ver. 2.0, June 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BLZPJT.

Summary

This dataset has been archived; it has been superseded by version 3.0 (May 2022) which can be found at https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BLZPJT. The National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site is located near Bemidji, MN, USA. A high pressure oil pipeline ruptured in 1979 releasing ~1.7 million liters of light crude oil, which sprayed over an area of ~6500 square meters and collected in topographic depressions. Approximately 75% of the spilled oil was recovered. Much of the remainder reached the water table, where it is distributed into three residual oil bodies (the north, middle, and south oil pools). Groundwater flows east-northeast toward a small lake roughly 300 m downgradient from the original spill site. Secondary [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
Neil C Terry
Originator :
Neil C Terry, Barbara A Bekins, Jared J Trost, Frederick D Day-Lewis
Metadata Contact :
Neil C Terry
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Office of the Chief Operating Officer

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DirectSampling.zip 113.45 KB application/zip
FDEM.zip 26.26 MB application/zip
GPR.zip 791.92 MB application/zip
Metadata_main.xml
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View 		11.82 KB application/fgdc+xml
README.txt 702 Bytes text/plain
revision_history.txt 1.07 KB text/plain
thumb.JPG thumbnail 455.96 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

The waterborne electromagnetic induction data and supporting datasets collected at Bemidji were mainly used to map where an elevated specific conductance plume, associated with biodegradation of oil at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site, is discharging to surface water.
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  • National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site
  • USGS Data Release Products
  • USGS New York Water Science Center

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Revision 2.0 by Neil Terry on June 5, 2020. To review the changes that were made, see “revision_history.txt” in the attached files section.

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