References for Sediment Database and Assessment Chapter

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Buchholtz ten Brink, M., Hastings, M., Manheim, F.T., Reid, J., and Mecray, E., 1998, Master data dictionary for contaminated sediment databases at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Geology Center, (this volume). This is a current version of a basic document utilized since the early 1990's. It continues to be modified according to requirements.

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Crocker, J.A., 1988, Sediment deposition in Lake Pontchartrain from the 1973 Bonnet Carré Spillway operation: New Orleans, LA, University of New Orleans, Department of Geology and Geophysics, MSc. Thesis, 81 p.

Childers, G.W., 1985, A baseline study of the water quality and selected faunal communities in Lake Maurepas, its major tributaries, and Pass Manchac: Hammond, LA, Southeastern Louisiana University, Department of Biological Sciences, 330 p.

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Frazier, D.E., 1967, Recent deltaic deposits of the Mississippi River; their development and chronology: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 17, p. 287-315.

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LDEQ, 1989, Impact assessment of Bayou Trepagnier: Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Water Resources, Water Pollution Control Division, 71 p. plus appendices

List, J.H., HISWA model output for Lake Pontchartrain test runs, in Signell and others, this publication.

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USEPA, 1995, Unpublished data of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, transferred to spreadsheet format by M. Marot and C. Holmes. Also refered to in this site as EPA(Marot/Holmes), 1995; This is an earlier portion of EMAP-EPA data utilized in certain figures. The database in Appendix D incorporates a more comprehensive set of EMAP data.

USGS, 1972, Baton Rouge, LA.; MISS, 1:250,000 topographic map.

USGS, 1973, Breton Sound, Louisiana, 1:250,000 topographic map.

USGS, 1978, Mobile, ALA.; MISS.; LA., 1:250,000 topographic map.

USGS, 1979, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1:250,000 topographic map.

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Williams, S.J., 1995, The Lake Pontchartrain Basin - Louisiana's Troubled Urban Estuary, Selected Issues in the USGS Marine and Coastal Geology Program: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet.

Wright, H.E. (Ed.) 1983, Late-Quaternary Environment of the United States: v. 2, The Holocene: University of Minnesota Press, 277 p.

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