Dataset: Carbon storage and accretion in Sweet Hall Marsh, Virginia

This dataset contains organic matter and radioisotope dating information for six soil cores from Sweet Hall Marsh in Virginia, USA. This project was a collaboration between the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Cores were collected along an established wetland transect, near three long-term surface elevation table sites, covering creek levee, inner flats, and ghost forest sites. 1 core at each SET site was collected and processed for grain size and organic matter content, while a second core at each site was processed and analyzed for radioisotope dating information at Chris Hein’s Sediment Lab for Gamma Analysis.