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Kokaly, R.F., Clark, R.N., Swayze, G.A., Livo, K.E., Hoefen, T.M., Pearson, N.C., Wise, R.A., Benzel, W.M., Lowers, H.A., Driscoll, R.L., and Klein, A.J., 2017, USGS Spectral Library Version 7: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1035, 61 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1035
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TITLE: OiledMarshPlant DWO-2-BAT-08 DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: Man_Made

SAMPLE_ID: oil-coated plants from site DWO-2-BAT-08

MATERIAL_TYPE: vegetation coated with weathered oil

MATERIAL: Weathered oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill

FORMULA:

FORMULA_HTML:

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Barataria Bay, Louisiana

COLLECTION_LATITUDE: 29.45243 deg. N

COLLECTION_LONGITUDE: 89.87058 deg. W

DATUM: WGS-84

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Raymond F. Kokaly, USGS

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS, Denver

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION:

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

Weathered oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coating marsh plants. The oil-coated plants were collected on July 10, 2010, in an amber glass jar and stored on ice until spectral measurements were made in the laboratory on July 11, 2010. The spectrum is an average of 9 measurements made of oil-coated Juncus roemerianus and Spartina alterniflora. The reflectance spectrum has absorption features centered near 1.72 and 2.30 microns arising from C-H bonds in weathered oil.

The site DWO-2-BAT-08 is described in:
Kokaly, R.F., Heckman, David, Holloway, JoAnn, Piazza, Sarai, Couvillion, Brady, Steyer, G.D., Mills, Christopher, and Hoefen, T.M., 2011, Shoreline surveys of oil-impacted marsh in southern Louisiana, July to August 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1022, 124 p. Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1022/

This spectrum, labeled as "Oiled-Plants1", was published and described in:
Kokaly, R.F., Couvillion, B.R., Holloway, J.M., Roberts, D.A., Ustin, S.L., Peterson, S.H., Khanna, S., and Piazza, S.C., 2013, Spectroscopic remote sensing of the distribution and persistence of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay marshes, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 129, Pages 210-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.028

IMAGE_OF_SAMPLE: Photo of sample Photo of sample Photo of sample Photo of sample

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XRD_ANALYSIS:

None

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COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None

COMPOSITION_TRACE: None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

No additional compositional details available.

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MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

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SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

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SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1a2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns