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Data Release
Sediment Core Microfossil Data Collected from the Coastal Marsh of Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi, USA
By Alisha M. Ellis,1 Jessica A. Jacobs,2 Kathryn E.L. Smith,1 Isabelle D. Atchia,1 and Christopher G. Smith1
1 U.S. Geological Survey
2 Cherokee Nation Technologies contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey
Summary
To aid in geologic studies of sediment transport and environmental change of a coastal marsh, 1-centimeter (cm) foraminiferal subsamples were taken from seven sediment push cores collected in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GNDNERR), Mississippi (MS), in October 2016. The push cores were collected along two, shore-perpendicular transects at 5, 15, 25, and 50 meters (m) from the shoreline, on opposite sides of Middle Bay during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Field Activities Number (FAN) 2016-358-FA, also known as alternate FAN 16CCT07. Foraminiferal subsamples were processed and analyzed at the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) as part of the Estuarine-MaRsh Geology (EMRG) research project. Sediment characteristics, loss-on-ignition (LOI), and site location information for the core sites can be found in Marot and others (2019; https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FO8R3Y). Downloadable data are available as Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx), comma-separated values text files (.csv), and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata (.txt and .xml).
Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16CCT07_Foram_Counts.zip 16CCT07 sediment core foraminiferal counts and data dictionary (.csv,.xlsx, .pdf) |
16CCT07_Foram_metadata.xml | 16CCT07_Foram_metadata.txt | 16CCT07_Foram_Counts.zip (388 KB) |
Figure 1. Location of the two coastal marsh core transects in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi.
Suggested Citation
Ellis, A.M., Jacobs, J.A., Smith, K.E.L., Atchia, I.D., and Smith, C.G., 2021, Sediment core microfossil data collected from the coastal marsh of Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7X63K24.