Sediment data from vibracores collected in January 2015 from around Breton Island, Louisiana (U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity Number 2014–336–FA)

• Main Authors: Kyle W. Kelso, Thomas M. Tuten
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: geoscientificInformation; location; oceans; geology; geomorphology; unconsolidated deposits; sediment; vibracore; grain size; GRADISTAT; mean; sorting; skewness; kurtosis; Folk and Ward; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Louisiana; Breton Island; Gulf of Mexico; Breton Sound
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/f29a8e75-c9a4-47e0-9203-3eedfd7d5996

Breton Island, located at the southern end of the Chandeleur Islands, supports one of Louisiana’s largest historical brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) nesting colonies. Although the brown pelican was delisted as an endangered species in 2009, nesting areas are threatened by continued land los...