Dataset description: Analysis for estimated percent sand in cores taken from San Francisco Bay, California, 1990-2016

Sediment analysis of cores collected in San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay, California from 1990 to 2016 for percent sand. Handwritten core logs, x-radiographs, and the cores themselves, were examined for the presence of sand.

Keywords	sediment transport, sedimentation, suspended material (water), dredging, estuarine processes, box coring, gravity coring, stratigraphic thickness, drilling and coring, mining and quarrying, bathymetry, ocean processes, ocean sciences
Data types	Geology
Format	comma-delimited text;
Amount	256.8 KB

Contacts

Contact	Theresa Fregoso PCMSC_data@usgs.gov

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Location of materials and files

Public files	https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y7W1ZM https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data-releases/datarelease/10.5066-P9Y7W1ZM/
Metadata	https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/pcmsc/DataReleases/CMGDS_DR_tool/DR_P9Y7W1ZM/SanFranciscoCoreSedimentAnalysis_metadata.xml Outline - Questions and answers - Text - XML

Activities and equipment

Activity	Equipment
J190SF	core corer
J191SF	gravitycore corer
J200SF	gravitycore corer
J200SF	boxcore box core and susampler
2016-671-FA	vibracore