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Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Radiochemistry (210Pb and 137Cs) of cores BC01 and BC02 obtained in 2024 off Alameda and Point Isabel in San Francisco Bay, California

Center News
Instruments deployed by PCMSC near the bay-marsh edge of Whale's Tail South marsh

Linking tidal-creek sediment fluxes to vertical sediment accretion in a restored salt marsh

Photography
researchers with sediment cores

Marine Sediment Cores from Southern Maryland

Featured Films and Shorts
Cover image for sediment core lab video, showing core-lab walk-in refrigerator

USGS Sediment Core Laboratory

Featured Films and Shorts
Cover image for sediment core lab video, showing core-lab walk-in refrigerator

USGS Sediment Core Laboratory (AD)

Photography
Cover image for sediment core lab video, showing core-lab walk-in refrigerator

Cover image for sediment core lab video

Center News
Researchers collecting sediment core in East Bajura, Puerto Rico

New Video Offers Virtual Tour of the USGS Sediment Core Lab

Photography
A smiling woman in a hard hat and life jacket gives two-thumbs-up on the deck of a ship standing next to a sediment core tube.

Hooray for sediment cores!

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Sediment core data from offshore Palos Verdes, California

Photography
USGS scientist samples an ocean sediment core

Sediment Cores Reveal the History of the Pacific Ocean

Center News
Scientists working in the field: on a boat, in a lab, on a beach. Text says, "News from the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center. USGS."

SPCMSC Geologic Core and Sample Database is available through an updated web application

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Computed tomography (CT) scans, photographs, geochemistry, grain-size and total carbon analysis, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scans, X-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetic susceptibility, and gamma-ray bulk density data of gravity cores and push cores from the Esc

Photography
Scientist collects a sediment push core on the beach in the Chandeleur Islands, LA.

Collecting sediment push core on the beach in Chandeleur Islands, LA

Photography
Picture shows three scientists holding a metal push core in preparation to extract the sediment sample.

Scientists prepare to extract push core sediment sample

video

Vibracoring-Reconstructing the past from Earth sediments

Data Release
USGS

Sedimentological and geotechnical analyses of marine sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch

Photography
A scientist in a bright colored vest holds a chunk of consolidated sandy sediment, in a grassy area with palms behind them.

Sediment Sample from Barrier Island Core

Fieldwork
Photo of a floating coring rig with metal A-frame support structure and platforms to accommodate operators at two levels.

Piston coring rig

Photography
Sediment cores from Twin Butte Lake, Yellowstone National Park, being analyzed in the laboratory

Sediment cores from Twin Butte Lake, Yellowstone National Park, being analyzed in the laboratory

Photography
Four scientists stand around a table in a lab with gray sediment core samples on the table, and they are examining the sediment.

Selecting sediment samples from cores

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Sediment core data from the northern flank of Monterey Canyon, offshore California

Photography
Large metal sediment coring device on the deck of a ship with a man sitting nearby, preparing a long plastic tube.

Jumbo Piston Corer

Photography
A man writes on a long metal cyllinder in a marsh environment

Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Ciarletta labels a sediment core

Photography
Image shows gas hydrates in marine sediments with a ruler along the side to show scale

Gas Hydrates in Marine Sediments

Project
Cartoon image of a sediment core, coral slab x-ray, clam shell, and a foramnifera

APPROACH (APplying Proxy-based Reconstruction Of Atlantic Climate CHange)

Photography
Image shows gas hydrate samples in blue-gloved hands

Gas Hydrates in Marine Sediments off the Oregon Coast

Photography
Two scientists on board a research vessel at sea pull a marine coring device onboard.

Acquiring marine sediment vibracores in Mississippi Sound

Photography
A woman wearing a lab coat walks into a laboratory with sinks and machinery, she is carrying a bag.

PCMSC Sediment Prep Lab

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Sedimentological and geotechnical analyses of marine sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA

Photography
Scientists on a beach use sediment coring equipment (a tall aluminum barrel and motor to vibrate the barrel into the ground)

Collecting a sediment vibracore on the beach in Fire Island, NY

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