Digital Data
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issued: 2025-09-12T13:02:24.983306
modified: 2025-09-25T00:10:40.586594

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issued: 2025-09-15T09:44:03.687098
modified: 2025-09-25T00:10:40.585352

Sedimentary data from the lower Pearl River, Louisiana, USA
type: Dataset
contact point: Organization
  fn: Christopher G. Smith
keyword: AmeriGEO
keyword: location
keyword: unconsolidated-deposits
keyword: GEO
keyword: North America
keyword: estuaries
keyword: geoscientificinformation
keyword: hurricanes
keyword: pearl-river-river
keyword: usgs
keyword: CKAN
keyword: geology
keyword: National
keyword: usgs-5afc50fbe4b0da30c1bc0e7b
keyword: u-s-geological-survey
keyword: estuary
keyword: brackish-salt-marsh
keyword: GEOSS
keyword: sediment
keyword: elements
keyword: gulf-of-mexico
keyword: louisiana
keyword: United States
keyword: AmeriGEOSS
keyword: stratigraphy
theme: {geospatial}
description: 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 bottomland hardwood forest through Lake Borgne, and a west-east transect near the coast, during field work conducted in September 2015.
issued: 2025-09-25T00:10:40.615184
modified: 2020-08-30T00:00:00+00:00
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US Migrating
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