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2D micromodel studies of pore-throat clogging by pure fine-grained sediments and natural sediments from NGHP-02, offshore India Fine-grained sediments, or “fines,” are nearly ubiquitous in natural sediments, even in the predominantly coarse-grained sediments that host gas hydrates. Fines within these sandy sediments can be mobilized and subsequently clog flow pathways while methane is being extracted from gas hydrate as an energy resource. Using two-dimensional (2D) micromodels to test the conditions in which clogging occurs provides insights for choosing production operation parameters that optimize methane recovery in the field. During methane extraction, several processes can alter the mobility and clogging potential of fines: (1) fluid flow as the formation is depressurized to release methane from gas hydrate, (2) shifting pore-fluid... Categories: Data; Tags: 2D micromodel, Bay of Bengal, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Indian Ocean, All tags... Krishna-Godavari Basin, Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marine Geology, NGHP-02, NGHP-02-09, NGHP-02-16, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, clogging, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, illite, image analysis, kaolin, laboratory experiments, mica, natural resource extraction, optical microscopy, permeability, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags Summary of analytical data for sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments. The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Cruise ID EN577, Holocene, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, All tags... NEMP, New England Mud Patch, R/V Endeavor, Seabed Experiment Area, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, WHSC Field Activity 2016-001-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, acoustic cores, bulk density, calcium carbonate, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, geology, geophysical properties, grain density, grain porosity, grain size, gravity coring, oceans, organic carbon, piston cores, piston coring, porosity, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, soil moisture, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, vibracores, vibracoring, Fewer tags Multi-sensor core logger (MSCL) data of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Baltimore Canyon, Cruise ID HRS1209, Currituck Landslide, Holocene, All tags... Hugh R. Sharp, Maryland, North Carolina, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Virginia, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2012-007-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, gamma density, geology, geoscientificInformation, multi-sensor core logger, oceans, p-wave amplitude, p-wave velocity, piston cores, piston coring, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags PCCT measurements of the consolidation characteristics, constrained modulus and compressional wave velocity for fine-grained sediment collected from Area C, Krishna-Godavari Basin during India's National Gas Hydrate Program, NGHP-02 Understanding how effectively methane can be extracted from a gas hydrate reservoir requires knowing how compressible, permeable, and strong the overlying seal sediment is. This data release provides results for flow-through permeability, consolidation, and direct shear measurements made on fine-grained seal sediment from Site NGHP-02-08 offshore eastern India. The sediment was collected in a pressure core from the Krishna-Godavari Basin during the 2015 Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 2 (NGHP-02). Gas hydrate is a crystalline solid that forms naturally in the sediment of certain marine and permafrost environments where pressure is relatively high (equivalent to the pressure measured ~300 meters water... Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, core analysis, drilling and coring, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, pressure core, rotary drilling, soil sciences, Fewer tags Dataset of diatom controls on the sedimentation behavior of fine-grained sediment collected offshore of South Korea during the Second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2 One of the primary goals of South Korea’s second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition (UBGH2) was to examine the geotechnical properties of the marine sediment associated with methane gas hydrate occurrences found offshore of eastern Korea in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages formed by a lattice of water molecules. During UBGH2, concentrated gas hydrate was found in two sedimentary environments: gas hydrate was found in thin, coarse-grained sediment layers interbedded with fine-grained sediment (fines, such as clays and muds) and as veins of essentially pure gas hydrate within predominantly fine-grained... Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, East Sea, Geophysics, South Korea, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Ulleung Basin, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags Dependence of sedimentation behavior on pore-fluid chemistry for sediment collected offshore South Korea during the Second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2 One goal of Korea’s second Ulleung Basin Gas Hydrate Expedition, UBGH2, is to examine geotechnical properties of the marine sediment associated with methane gas hydrate occurrences found offshore eastern Korea in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages formed by a lattice of water molecules. Offshore Korea, gas hydrate is found in thin, coarse-grained sediment layers that are interbedded with fine-grained sediment. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in these layered marine environments is technically and economically viable remains an open research... Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, East Sea, Energy Resources, Marine Geology, All tags... Soil Sciences, South Korea, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Ulleung Basin, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, kerosene, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags High-resolution magnetic susceptibility of sediment cores from the New England collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments. The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Bartington MS2E, Bartington MS3, Cruise ID EN577, Holocene, All tags... Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, NEMP, New England Mud Patch, R/V Endeavor, Seabed Experiment Area, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2016-001-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, acoustic cores, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, geology, gravity coring, magnetic susceptibility, magnetic susceptibility, magnetism, oceans, piston cores, piston coring, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, vibracores, Fewer tags Dependence of sediment compressibility and recompressibility on pore fluid chemistry for pure, endmember fines The safety, effectiveness and longevity of many construction and geotechnical engineering projects rely on correctly accounting for the evolution of soil properties over time. Critical sediment properties, such as compressibility, can change in response to pore-fluid chemistry changes, particularly if the sediment contains appreciable concentrations of fine-grained materials. Pore-fluid changes act at the micro scale, altering interactions between sediment particles, or between sediment particles and the pore fluid. These micro-scale alterations change how sediment fabrics and void ratios develop, which directly impacts macro-scale properties such as sediment compressibility. The goal of this study is to correlate... Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, calcium carbonate, compressibility, consolidation, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, illite, kaolin, kerosene, mica, recompresibility, silica silt, soil sciences, Fewer tags Sedimentation Rate Dependence on Pore Fluid Chemistry for Sediment Collected From Area B, Krishna-Godavari Basin, During India's National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition NGHP-02 One goal of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program's NGHP-02 expedition was to examine the geomechanical response of marine sediment to the extraction of methane from gas hydrate found offshore eastern India in the Bay of Bengal. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages in a lattice of water molecules. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in the marine subsurface is technically and economically viable remains an open research topic as of 2018. This data release provides insight about a poorly quantified aspect of this process: the reaction of fine-grained sediment particles... Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, kerosene, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags PCCT measurements of stress and strain during direct shear tests of fine-grained sediment collected from Area C, Krishna-Godavari Basin during India's National Gas Hydrate Program, NGHP-02 Understanding how effectively methane can be extracted from a gas hydrate reservoir requires knowing how compressible, permeable, and strong the overlying seal sediment is. This data release provides results for flow-through permeability, consolidation, and direct shear measurements made on fine-grained seal sediment from Site NGHP-02-08 offshore eastern India. The sediment was collected in a pressure core from the Krishna-Godavari Basin during the 2015 Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 2 (NGHP-02). Gas hydrate is a crystalline solid that forms naturally in the sediment of certain marine and permafrost environments where pressure is relatively high (equivalent to the pressure measured ~300 meters water... Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, core analysis, drilling and coring, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, pressure core, rotary drilling, soil sciences, Fewer tags PCCT demonstration of flow rate versus pressure gradient measurements for determining permeability in fine-grained sediment collected from Area C, Krishna-Godavari Basin during India's National Gas Hydrate Program, NGHP-02 Understanding how effectively methane can be extracted from a gas hydrate reservoir requires knowing how compressible, permeable, and strong the overlying seal sediment is. This data release provides results for flow-through permeability, consolidation, and direct shear measurements made on fine-grained seal sediment from Site NGHP-02-08 offshore eastern India. The sediment was collected in a pressure core from the Krishna-Godavari Basin during the 2015 Indian National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 2 (NGHP-02). Gas hydrate is a crystalline solid that forms naturally in the sediment of certain marine and permafrost environments where pressure is relatively high (equivalent to the pressure measured ~300 meters water... Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, core analysis, drilling and coring, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, permeability, pressure core, rotary drilling, soil sciences, Fewer tags Visual description sheets of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and... Tags: Atlantic, Baltimore Canyon, Cruise ID HRS1209, Currituck Landslide, Hugh R. Sharp, All tags... Maryland, North Carolina, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Virginia, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2012-007-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, geology, geoscientificInformation, image collections, marine stratigraphy, oceans, piston cores, piston coring, sand deposits, sediment composition, sediment samples, sedimentary structures, sedimentology, surface color, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, vane shear strength, visual core description, Fewer tags Characteristic Settling Time and Interface Height Dependence on Pore Fluid Chemistry for Sediment Collected From Area B, During India's National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition NGHP-02 One goal of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program's NGHP-02 expedition was to examine the geomechanical response of marine sediment to the extraction of methane from gas hydrate found offshore eastern India in the Bay of Bengal. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages in a lattice of water molecules. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in the marine subsurface is technically and economically viable remains an open research topic as of 2018. This data release provides insight about a poorly quantified aspect of this process: the reaction of fine-grained sediment particles... Categories: Data; Tags: Bay of Bengal, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin, All tags... U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, brine, core analysis, deionized water, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, gas hydrate resources, geoscientificInformation, kerosene, laboratory experiments, oceans, settling, soil sciences, Fewer tags Data Release for The Hydraulic-Parameter Database and Integrated Borehole Analyses, Pahute Mesa and Vicinity, Nevada This data release consists of a ZIP file that includes: two Excel workbooks, detailed metadata files, and data directories. The Hydraulic Properties Database (HPD; Table-of-AQtests.xlsm) is an interactive Excel workbook that catalogues single-well, aquifer-test results at Pahute Mesa and vicinity. Results from 1,459 single-well, aquifer-test analyses are uniquely identified to 360 tested wells. The Integrated Borehole Workbook (Borehole_Index_PM.xlsm) is an interactive Excel workbook that presents integrated results from slug tests and pumping aquifer tests that took place in 17 boreholes in Pahute Mesa and vicinity from 1962 to 2013. The Metadata folder has detailed metadata.xml files for both Excel workbooks.... Tags: Hydrogeology, Nevada, Nye County, Pahute Mesa, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... borehole logging, earth material properties, ground-water level, hydrogeology, inlandWaters, visualization methods, Fewer tags Undrained shear strength of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Baltimore Canyon, Cruise ID HRS1209, Currituck Landslide, Holocene, All tags... Hugh R. Sharp, Maryland, North Carolina, Su, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Virginia, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2012-007-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, geology, geoscientificInformation, lithology, oceans, piston cores, piston coring, sand deposits, sediment samples, sediment stiffness, sedimentology, shear strength, torque meter, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags Water content analyses of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Baltimore Canyon, Cruise ID HRS1209, Currituck Landslide, Holocene, All tags... Hugh R. Sharp, Maryland, North Carolina, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Virginia, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2012-007-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bulk density, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, dry bulk density, earth material properties, geology, geoscientificInformation, geotechnical analysis, grain density, moisture and density, oceans, piston cores, piston coring, porosity, pycnometer, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, soil moisture, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, water content, Fewer tags Dependence of Sedimentation Behavior on Pore-Fluid Chemistry for Sediment Collected From Area B, Krishna-Godavari Basin During India's National Gas Hydrate Program, NGHP-02 One goal of the Indian National Gas Hydrate Program's NGHP-02 expedition was to examine the geomechanical response of marine sediment to the extraction of methane from gas hydrate found offshore eastern India in the Bay of Bengal. Methane gas hydrate is a naturally occurring crystalline solid that sequesters methane in individual molecular cages in a lattice of water molecules. Methane gas hydrate is a potential energy resource, but whether extracting methane from gas hydrate in the marine subsurface is technically and economically viable remains an open research topic as of 2018. This data release provides insight about a poorly quantified aspect of this process: the reaction of fine-grained sediment particles... Tags: Energy Resources, Geophysics, Mineralogy, Soil Sciences, core analysis, All tags... earth material properties, gas hydrate resources, laboratory experiments, soil sciences, Fewer tags Dependence of sedimentation rate and behavior on pore fluid chemistry for pure, endmember fines The safety, effectiveness and longevity of many construction and geotechnical engineering projects rely on correctly accounting for the evolution of soil properties over time. Critical sediment properties, such as compressibility, can change in response to pore-fluid chemistry changes, particularly if the sediment contains appreciable concentrations of fine-grained materials. Pore-fluid changes act at the micro scale, altering interactions between sediment particles, or between sediment particles and the pore fluid. These micro-scale alterations change how sediment fabrics and void ratios develop, which directly impacts macro-scale properties such as sediment compressibility. The goal of this study is to correlate... Categories: Data; Tags: CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, All tags... USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bentonite, brine, calcium carbonate, deionized water, diatoms, earth material properties, fine-grained sediment, geoscientificInformation, illite, kaolin, kerosene, mica, settling, silica silt, sodium hexametaphosphate, soil sciences, Fewer tags Sedimentological and geotechnical analyses of marine sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch, located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments. The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2 meters... Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, GPS measurement, Holocene, Marine Geology, Martha's Vineyard, All tags... Massachusetts, NEMP, New England Mud Patch, Seabed Experiment Area, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, U.S. Continental Shelf, biostratigraphy, bulk density, carbon, chemical analysis, clay deposits, core analysis, drilling and coring, earth material properties, faunal and floral census (microscopic), fossils, geolocation measurement, geology, grain-size analysis, gravity coring, image collections, magnetic susceptibility, magnetism, micropaleontology, paleontology, piston coring, porosity, sand deposits, sedimentology, sieve-size analysis, soil moisture, stratigraphy, subsampling, unconsolidated deposits, vibracoring, x-ray diffraction, Fewer tags X-radiographs of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and... Tags: Atlantic, Baltimore Canyon, Cruise ID HRS1209, Currituck Landslide, Holocene, All tags... Hugh R. Sharp, Maryland, North Carolina, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Virginia, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2012-007-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, X-radiograph, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, geology, geoscientificInformation, oceans, piston cores, piston coring, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags 1 2 »