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Summary Information for Field Activity 2000-049-FA

Area of Operations: Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk, Virginia to Annapolis, Maryland, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: March 17, 2000 to March 18, 2000

Chief scientist: John Bratton

Tom Boyd, Naval Research Lab

Objectives: Coring and resampling of porewater from site MD99-2205 sampled in June 1999 from R/V MARION DUFRESNE (DFRN99026).

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived:

Summary: Two gravity cores were collected at a site near Parker Creek as follows: PK2000-1 38deg33.9395 N, 76deg26.6730 W, 16.4 m, recovery 240 cm, 8 porewater samples at 25 cm spacing; PK2000-2 38deg33.9418 N, 76deg26.6826 W, 16.2 m, recovery 230 cm, 23 porewater samples at 10 cm spacing. Samples analyzed onshore for total methane by Pohlman at NRL, chloride by ion chromatograph at MBL by Bratton.

Contact: John Bratton (jbratton@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier H-49-00-CH. Visit this site for more information.

Related Links:

- Download 00049.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth

Platform Info:

CAPE HENLOPEN

Publications resulting from these data

Bratton, John F.,2010, The three scales of submarine groundwater flow and discharge across passive continental margins: The Journal of Geology, v. 118, no. 5: p. 565-575. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/655114)

Data Types and Locations:

Samples

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