Particle size analysis results from the VA-Clarke-03 core, Cherry Hill quadrangle, Dinwiddie County, Virginia

The dataset documents results from particle size analysis conducted on a suite of sediment samples from the VA-Clarke-03 core, Cherry Hill quadrangle, Dinwiddie county, Virginia [36.931926, -77.566802]. The 44-foot-long core was collected on 05/16/2023 using the North Carolina Geological Survey Geoprobe. The core was collected from sands and gravels of the uppermost coastal plain that host the Old Hickory heavy mineral deposit. Because host sediments are non-fossiliferous, there is little consensus as to their age, stratigraphic position, or nomenclature. Current mapping assigns host sands and gravels to two units in the upper part of the Pliocene to Pleistocene Chesapeake Group. In the lab, the core was analyzed...

Categories: Data; Tags: Beckman Coulter, Cherry Hill quadrangle, Dinwiddie County, FBGC, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, All tags... Mineral Resources, Sedimentology, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia coastal plain, Virginia coastal plain, biota, grain size, laser diffraction, particle size, sedimentology, sieving, Fewer tags