This core was originally described in the following publications:

• Baucom, P.C., Bratton, J.F., Colman, S.M., Moore, J.M., King, J., Heil, C. and Seal, II, R. 2001. Selected data for sediment cores collected in Chesapeake Bay in 1996 and 1998, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-194.

• Kerhin, R.T., Williams, C., Cronin, T.M. 1998. Lithologic descriptions of piston cores from Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-787.

Data obtained from this core were used in the following publications:

• Colman, S.M., Baucom, P.C., Bratton, J., Cronin, T.M., McGeehin, J.P., Willard, D.A., Zimmerman, A. and Vogt, P.R. 2002. Radiocarbon dating of Holocene sediments in Chesapeake Bay. Quaternary Research, v. 57, p. 58-70.

• Cronin, T., Willard, D., Karlsen, A., Ishman, S., Verardo, S., McGeehin, J., Kerhin, R., Holmes, C., Colman, S. and Zimmerman, A. 2000. Climatic variability in the eastern United States over the past millennium from Chesapeake Bay sediments. Geology, v. 28, n. 1, p. 3-6.

• Karlsen, A.W., Cronin, T.M., Ishman, S.E., Willard, D.A., Holmes, C.W., Marot, M., and Kerhin, R. 2000. Historical trends in Chesapeake Bay dissolved oxygen based on benthic foraminifera from sediment cores, Estuaries, v. 23 n. 4, p. 488-508.

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