Core data from offshore Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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Abstract
In 2008, as a collaborative effort between Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the U.S. Geological Survey, 20 giant gravity cores were collected from areas surrounding Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The regions sampled have had many large earthquake and landslide events, some of which are believed to have triggered tsunamis. The objective of this coring cruise, carried out aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel Seward Johnson, was to determine the age of several substantial slope failures and seismite layers near Puerto Rico in an effort to map their temporal distribution. Data gathered from the cores collected in 2008 and 11 archive cores from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are included in this report. These data include lithologic logs, core summary sheets, x-ray fluorescence, wet-bulk density, magnetic susceptibility, grain-size analyses, radiographs, and radiocarbon age dates.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Core data from offshore Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2014-1227 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20141227 |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Description | HTML Document |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands |
| Datum | World Geodetic System of 1984 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator projection |
| Online Only (Y/N) | Y |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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