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Sediment cores were collected in the Cache Creek Settling Basin (CCSB), Yolo County, California, during October 2011 at 10 locations (borehole sites) and during August 2012 at 5 other locations. Total core depths ranged from approximately 4.6 to 13.7 meters (15 to 45 feet), with penetration to about 9.1 meters (30 feet) at most locations. Detailed subsampling (3-centimeter intervals) was done at total of seven locations: six along an east-west transect in the southern part of the Cache Creek Settling Basin and at one in the northern part of the basin for analyses of total mercury; organic content; and cesium-137, which was used for dating. This data release reports results of the analyses of each subsample of these...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Cache Creek Settling Basin,
Sacramento River Watershed,
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Woodland, CA, All tags...
Yolo Bypass,
Yolo County,
basin,
cesium,
chemical analysis,
drilling and coring,
environment,
field sampling,
geochemistry,
isotopic analysis,
mercury,
mercury contamination,
none,
sediment geochemistry,
wetlands, Fewer tags
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The Cache Creek Settling Basin (CCSB) is a 13.3 km2 levee-bounded sediment retention basin located at the modern terminus of Cache Creek near the eastern boundary of Yolo County, approximately two miles NE of Woodland, California. The Cache Creek Settling Basin was constructed in 1937 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to trap suspended sediment from the upper Cache Creek watershed during high-flow events, with the purpose of preserving the floodway capacity of the Yolo Bypass, a larger leveed floodway located downstream. This dataset includes subsamples from sediment cores and shallow streambank sediment collected from the Sacramento River watershed. Sediment cores were collected in the Cache Creek Settling Basin...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Basin,
Cache Creek,
California,
Drilling and Coring,
Geochemistry, All tags...
Provenance,
Sediment Fingerprinting,
Sediment Geochemistry,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
environment,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
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