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Box-type sediment-coring device

Journal of Sedimentary Research ◽

10.1306/74d71005-2b21-11d7-8648000102c1865d ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 185-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J. E. Klovan

Keyword(s):

Sediment Coring

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Ocean Sediment Coring Program

Eos ◽

10.1029/eo052i006piu256 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 52 (6) ◽

pp. IUGG256

Author(s):

M. N. A. Peterson

Keyword(s):

Ocean Sediment ◽

Sediment Coring

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Moving Earth and Building Monuments at the Carson Mounds Site, Coahoma County, Mississippi

Journal of Anthropology ◽

10.1155/2012/192923 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jayur Madhusudan Mehta ◽

Kelsey M. Lowe ◽

Rachel Stout-Evans ◽

John Connaway

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Susceptibility ◽

Pilot Study ◽

High Intensity ◽

Aerial Imagery ◽

Lower Intensity ◽

Critical Information ◽

Landscape Formation ◽

Sediment Coring ◽

Trench Excavation

The application of combined techniques such as aerial imagery, sediment coring, down-hole magnetic susceptibility, and mechanized trench excavation can provide critical information on landscape formation and mound stratigraphy, specifically if they can be used to understand mound sequences and development. This paper reviews preliminary findings from recent coring and test excavations at the Carson mounds site (22CO505) in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Aerial imagery assisted in the characterization of a crevasse ridge flood deposit underlying the site and detailed field descriptions of the pedology corroborated its existence. Subsequent sediment coring and trench excavation revealed the nature of flooding in prehistory, indicating that high-intensity floods were responsible for the formation of the crevasse ridge and that lower intensity floods were potentially responsible for interruptions in mound building at the site. This suggests that the Carson settlement was initiated on an actively flooding landform. Down-hole magnetic susceptibility correlated effectively with the pedology; however, it also helped discern anthropogenic surfaces (i.e., occupational layers) that are difficult to identify visually, such as those we found in Mound C. Findings from this pilot study demonstrate the utility of sediment coring and magnetic susceptibility as effective and feasible methods for developing hypothesis-driven research.

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