Marine and Coastal Sediment Studies

Eckerd College

All necessary equipment and instrumentation to sample and analyze surface sediment and core samples in coastal and shallow marine environments.

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Field

Vessels-5 ranging from 17 to 50 ft.
    RV Gilbert
Coring/sampling
  • Vibracoring
    • 5 to 100 ft. water depths-Rossfelder electric system
    • 0 to 30 ft. water depths-portable, gas-powered system
  • Push coring
    • Diver operated for high resolution, short-lived radioisotope age dating and geochemical analyses

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  • Seismic profiling
-CHIRP high-resolution (dm-scale) profiling system (Edgetech 424)
seismic profiling

Labs
  • Sedimentology
- Completely equipped, fully functional lab for sediment textural and compositional analyses
  • Sediment age dating
- Annual-scale geochronology using short-lived radioisotopes 210Pb, 137Cs, 7Be, 234Th
  • Core storage/processing facility - 2,000 ft2 facility for processing and storing up to 1,000 cores

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