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Continuous Resistivity Profiling Data from the Upper Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, 2004-2005

Open-File Report 2005-1306
By VeeAnn A. Cross, John F. Bratton, Emile Bergeron, Jeff K. Meunier, John Crusius, and Dirk Koopmans

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Introduction

The Neuse River Estuary in North Carolina has suffered impacts of eutrophication in recent years. As part of a larger project to better constrain nutrient budgets in the estuary, field investigations were performed to study occurrence and discharge of fresh and brackish ground water and nutrients beneath the estuary itself. A Continuous Resistivity Profiling (CRP) system was used to map the depth of the freshwater-saltwater interface (FSI) in sub-estuarine groundwater. This study area serves as a typological representation of a submarine groundwater environment characteristic of a shallow estuary in a wide coastal plain that has not experienced glaciation. Similar settings extend from New Jersey to Georgia, and along the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S. This report archives 29 lines of data collected during 2004 and 2005 surveys representing almost 210 km of survey lines.

Cross, V.A., Bratton, J.F., Bergeron, Emile, Meunier, J.K., Crusius, John, and Koopmans, Dirk, 2006, Continuous Resistivity Profiling data from the Upper Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, 2004-2005: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1306, CD-ROM.

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