IDENTIFICATION OF WOOD SAMPLES FROM CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA, AND FROM DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK AND BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, FLORIDA

Wood from various shipwrecks off the coasts of California and Florida were
examined to determine types of wood used for the construction of these ships.
Samples from Channel Islands National Park were collected from dry timbers on
Point Bennett and Cluster Point off the coast of California to test the beach
wreck scatters for possible associations with two late-nineteenth century lumber
schooners that were wrecked there. Samples from Dry Tortugas National Park off
the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico were from a variety of sites, all of
unknown cultural affiliation. Samples from Biscayne National Park, south of
Miami, Florida, were from a single site suspected to be that of a mid-eighteenth
century British warship.

研究人员对加利福尼亚州与佛罗里达州沿岸多处沉船遗址出土的木材进行了检测，以确定这些沉船建造时所使用的木材种类。采自加利福尼亚州沿岸海峡群岛国家公园的样本采集自贝内特角与克拉斯特角的干燥船木，用于检测海滩沉船散落物是否与两艘在此失事的19世纪晚期木材运输纵帆船存在关联。采自墨西哥湾佛罗里达州沿岸德赖托图格斯国家公园的样本来自多个遗址，所有遗址的文化归属均未明确。采自佛罗里达州迈阿密以南比斯坎国家公园的样本来自一处疑似18世纪中期英国战舰遗址的单一遗址。