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Alternative Title:UROP Report 2021
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Description:The Gulf coast of Louisiana has been shaped for thousands of years by deltaic cycles that have left large shoals of sand within the Gulf of Mexico. Dredging these shoals for their sand has been a business that has only grown as the need for sand has increased not only in the United States but globally 1. This dredging has left open pits within the Gulfs Shoals that are infilled from the infilled from the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River, that deposit their contents into the Gulf of Mexico. Cores Taken from Ship Shoal, Block 88 located to the east of the Atchafalaya and west of the Mississippi, have been analyzed for Grain size, Beryllium 7 decay, and x-rayed for future identification of sediment packages for sourcing and depositional environment. With this a future of if these are renewable sources of necessary sand will be able to be able to be identified.
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