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Paleo Lab Macroscopic Charcoal

• HF-ID: HFS2012-01
• Category: Research Samples
• Creator:
  • Foster, D.R.
  • Oswald, W.W.

• Associated Person:
  • Parshall, T.
  • MacDonald, Dana
  • Faison, Edward
  • Doughty, Elaine

• Date: 1999 to 2015
• Location: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York
• Media: Samples - charcoal
• Contents:
  • Lake sediment with water stored in scintallation vials. Inventory in
  • each box. 9 Cube Boxes.

• Keywords: sediments, charcoal, ponds
• Abstract:
  • Box 1: Benson Pond, Black Pond, Blaney's Pond, Blood Pond.
  • Box 2: Blood Pond, Cain Pond
  • Box 3: Deep Pond
  • Box 4: Deep Pond, Duck Pond, Duarte Pond, Eagle Pond, Fresh Pond.
  • Box 5: Fresh Pond, French Road Pond, Harlock Pond, Highstead Swamp, Icehouse Pond.
  • Box 6: Icehouse Pond, Jemima Pond, Little Pond Royalston, Little Willey Pond, Mary's Lake, Moshup, Pimpneymouse Pond, Round Pond Truro.
  • Box 7: Round Pond Truro, Sandy Hill Pond, Sears Pond, Squibnocket Ridge, Umpawaug Pond.
  • Box 8: Umpawaug Pond.
  • Box 9: Umpawaug Pond, Uncle Seth's Pond, Wildwood Lake, Hemlock Hollow Site E and F.
  • Box 10: Deep Pond, Doe Pond, Green Pond 14, Jernagan's Pond
  • Box 11: Lily Pond 15, Ware Pond, West Side Pond,

• Related Items:
  • HF Data Archive: HF076 Long-term Vegetation Dynamics on the Massachusetts Coast from 2000 BP to Present
  • HF Data Archive: HF185 Lake Sediment Pollen from Blood Pond in Dudley MA from 15000 BP to Present
  • HF Data Archive: HF186 Lake Sediment Pollen from Little Pond in Royalston MA from 15000 BP to Present
  • HF Data Archive: HF189 Lake Sediment Pollen from Wildwood Lake in Long Island NY from 4500 BP to Present

• Archives Location: Sample Archive, Bay 1, stack 2, shelf 10
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • September 30, 2015 Box #1 taken to Paleo Lab in Shaler Hall to check on charcoal samples from Black Pond. Box Returned.

• Disposal Notes: Review.