Other ID: G-2-01-LA
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other)
Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To evaluate the storage and transport of particle reactive, environmentally relevant contaminates through the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River delta complexes to the near-shore Gulf of Mexico.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Venice, Louisiana
End Port/Location: Morgan City, Louisiana
Start Date: 2001-04-25
End Date: 2001-05-05
Equipment Used: GPS , Vibracorer, EG&G Geopulse, ITI ST-5 streamer, Chirp 424
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 10 single-channel boomer seismic lines along with 6 chirp lines in the Mississippi River Delta. Collected 5 boomer seismic-lines along with 5 chirp lines in the Atchafalaya River Delta. also 7 vibracore samples were taken from the Atchafalaya Delta.
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
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Location:
Mississippi Delta (south Pass & Garden Bay, Atchafalaya River, Atchafalaya Delta), Louisiana
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 29.50981 | South: 28.9664 | West: -91.4452 | East: -89.07224 |
Platform(s):
 G.K. Gilbert |
Calderon, K., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Wiese, D.S., 2003, Archive of boomer and chirp seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 01RCE02, southern Louisiana, April and May 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-88, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2003088.
Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Calderon, K., 2005, LASED geodatabase: a tool to manage, analyze, distribute, and archive geologic data from the Louisiana coastal zone: Digital mapping techniques '05, workshop proceedings; Open-File Report 2005-1428, U.S. Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 24-27, 2005, pp. 81–89, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1428/.
FAN 01RCE02 has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=01RCE02.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | --- | Navigation | Boomer (lines 01b002 - 01b015) (EDITED SHOTPOINT NAVIGATION) Boomer (line 01b001) (EDITED SHOTPOINT NAVIGATION) Chirp (all lines) (EDITED SHOTPOINT NAVIGATION) Chirp (all lines)-500 (500-SHOT INTERVAL NAVIGATION) Boomer (lines 01b002 - 01b015)-500 (500-SHOT INTERVAL NAVIGATION) Boomer (line 01b001)-500 (500-SHOT INTERVAL NAVIGATION) |
| Vibracorer | --- | Geology | Core descriptions |
| EG&G Geopulse | --- | Boomer Sub Bottom Profiler | |
| ITI ST-5 streamer | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Sparker | Boomer seismic data |
| Chirp 424 | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | Chirp seismic data |
