Luminescence Data for the Geomorphological Evolution of the Provincetown Hook, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

These Holocene aged samples are from three sediment cores obtained near the Provincetown Hook spit in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The goal of the geochronology work is to determine when shoreface sediments, which represent the oceanward extent of the spit, were present at the surface for the Provincetown Hook. Results from this work support efforts to publish more recent sedimentological and geochronological data from outer Cape Cod. There were five cores that were sampled for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL; PH04-D08, PH06-D05, PH06-D09, PH08-D04, and PH10-D05). The initial sampling was done at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in order to optimize core access and storage. A total of 16 samples from these five cores (PH04 n=3 samples, PH06 n=5 samples, PH08 n= 4 samples, and PH10 n=4 samples) was brought for further refinement to the USGS Luminescence Geochronology Lab in Denver, CO.