Measuring Accretion with a Feldspar Marker Horizon—Version 1.00
Whelan KR and Prats MC. 2016. Measuring Accretion with a Feldspar Marker Horizon—Version 1.00
The following standard operating procedure (SOP) outlines the process of establishing a marker horizon made from white feldspar mineral and measuring the sediment accreted on top of the feldspar layer using a cored plug method. The following procedures for feldspar marker horizon installation and sampling—part of the South Florida / Caribbean Network mangrove surface elevation table (SET) monitoring—are adapted from procedures from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center website (see “Establishing Marker Horizons” in Cahoon and Lynch 2003, available at: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/set/installation/markers.html) and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) coastal restoration protocol (Folse and West 2004), and from the Southeast Coast Network SOP Measuring Accretion with a Feldspar Marker Horizon (Asper and Curtis 2012).
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Whelan, Kevin; Prats, Michelle
- Date of Issue
- 2016-07
- Units
- SFCN
- Keywords
- Accretion, Climate change, Geomorphology, Hurricane, Mangrove, mangrove surface soil elevation table, Sea Level Rise, SET, SFCN, Soil Elevation Table, South Florida / Caribbean Network