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Geochemical data supporting analysis of geochemical conditions and nitrogen transport in nearshore groundwater and the subterranean estuary at a Cape Cod embayment, East Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2013

Dates

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2013-06-20
End Date
2013-09-25

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Huntington, T.G., Pirolli, G.F., McCobb, T.D., Böhlke, J.K., Colman, J.A., Kroeger, K.D., Brooks, T.W., and LeBlanc, D.R., 2018, Geochemical data supporting analysis of geochemical conditions and nitrogen transport in nearshore groundwater and the subterranean estuary at a Cape Cod embayment, East Falmouth, Massachusetts, 2013: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7RR1WF0.

Summary

This data release provides analytical and other data in support of an analysis of nitrogen transport and transformation in groundwater and in a subterranean estuary in the Eel River and onshore locations on the Seacoast Shores peninsula, Falmouth, Massachusetts. The analysis is described in U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5095 by Colman and others (2018). This data release is structured as a set of comma-separated values (CSV) files, each of which contains data columns for laboratory (if applicable), USGS Site Name, date sampled, time sampled, and columns of specific analytical and(or) other data. The .csv data files have the same number of rows and each row in each .csv file corresponds to the same sample. [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Matt Ely
Originator :
Thomas G Huntington, Gillian F Pirolli, Timothy D McCobb, John Karl Bohlke, John A Colman, Kevin D Kroeger, Thomas W Brooks, Denis R LeBlanc
Metadata Contact :
Thomas G Huntington
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
New England Water Science Center

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East_Falmouth_groundwater_meta.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		11.64 KB application/fgdc+xml
Study_Area.JPG
“Aerial image of study area” 		thumbnail 110.63 KB image/jpeg
Field_Parameters.csv 16.44 KB text/csv
Alkalinity.csv 31.24 KB text/csv
Ammonium_Isotopes.csv 27.43 KB text/csv
Anions.csv 32.81 KB text/csv
Cations.csv 47.92 KB text/csv
Dissolved_Gases.csv 20.49 KB text/csv
Fe_and_Mn.csv 31.83 KB text/csv
N2_Isotopes.csv 27.5 KB text/csv
N2Ar.csv 35.16 KB text/csv
Nitrate_Isotopes.csv 28.3 KB text/csv
Nitrogen_Species.csv 56.39 KB text/csv
Organic_Carbon.csv 54.07 KB text/csv
Salinity.csv 12.8 KB text/csv
Site_Information.csv 25.21 KB text/csv
TKN_and_Phosphorus.csv 56.13 KB text/csv
Tritium.csv 34.42 KB text/csv
Abbreviations_in_Data_Dictionary.pdf 125.72 KB application/pdf
Data Dictionary.csv 68.08 KB text/csv

Purpose

Hydrogeologic and geochemical data were obtained to investigate the fate and transport of nitrogen in a subterranean estuary near East Falmouth, Massachusetts. The goal of this investigation was to assess nitrogen attenuation in the aquifer under the Eel River Estuary and the adjacent peninsula that was densely populated with residences having septic systems and legacy cesspool inputs of inorganic nitrogen. This estuary is one of many small embayments on Cape Cod where water-quality impairment through nutrient enrichment leading to eutrophication is a major concern.
Aerial image of study area
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