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Summary for Field Activity Number 90048


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Area of Operations : California Continental Shelf, California, United States, North America, North Pacific

Dates: November 19, 1990 to November 21, 1990

Chief scientist: Brad Butman
   

Objectives: Deploy surface marker buoys and 3 current moorings on CA Continental Shelf in Sediment TRansport Events on Shelves and Slopes experiment to study resuspension/transport of fine-grained sediments in winter storms at sites C2, C3, C4.

Type of Activity: Sampling
Mooring work

Information to be derived: Time series data
Suspended Sediment Concentrations

Summary: Moorings deployed: 3(#362,363,364, all recovered #91007 WECOMA Mar. 9-11, 1991).

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Contact: Brad Butman (bbutman@usgs.gov)

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On-Line Resources: Station Descriptions Seismic Line DescriptionsTrack PlotRelated Web Site

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