Suspended-sediment concentration and grain size in the San Lorenzo River, coastal California

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Water samples were collected from the San Lorenzo River, Santa Cruz, California, and analyzed for suspended-sediment concentration and sand break (proportion of sand vs. silt-plus-clay) at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) laboratory in Santa Cruz, California. The samples were all single-vertical samples collected from the thalweg of the river, using a D-95 sampler deployed from a bridge box at a pedestrian bridge across the river in downtown Santa Cruz. All samples were collected from that location: 36.97565, -122.02322. The USGS acknowledges sampling permission granted by the city of Santa Cruz. Sediment concentrations and sand-break data are presented for use alongside stream-flow data collected by the USGS at gaging station 11161000, “San Lorenzo River at Santa Cruz”. The discharge data for gaging station 11161000 are separately accessible at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=11161000. The discharge values associated with the suspended-sediment sampling reported here are provided so that users may easily reproduce the sediment rating curve.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P1AFJX8M
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.65cbc31cd34ef4b119cb3805.xml

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  • environment
  • field-inventory-and-monitoring
  • nonliving-resources
  • earth-sciences
  • sedimentology
  • pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • data-content-subjects
  • geoscientificinformation
  • pcmsc
  • inlandwaters
  • datasets
  • coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program
  • usgs
  • usgs-65cbc31cd34ef4b119cb3805
  • water-sampling
  • cmhrp

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