Other ID: LYNCH 73
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): John S. Schlee
Affiliate Investigator(s): Patrick Taylor - USN Oceanographic Office
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Sonobuoy
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geophysical survey.
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Start Date: 1973-05-20
End Date: 1973-06-15
Equipment Used: Seismic refraction, Echosounder, Marine magnetometer, Gravity meter (wh), Loran-C, Air gun, Single channel hydrophone
Information to be Derived: Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected continuous seismic profiles (Lines AB, BD, DE, EF, FG, and GH), sidescan sonar, gravity, and magnetics (deep towed magnetometer over quiet magnetic zone).
Staff: Frank W. Jennings, Robert E. Mattick, John S. Schlee
Affiliate Staff:
Bill Osburn (Univ. of Delaware); David Greenwalt
Tom Getz
Clive Hulick
Jim Strauss; Donald McNair
Notes:
Location:
Atlantic continental slope, rise and margin, offshore Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 41.5 | South: 34.8 | West: -75.25 | East: -65.65 |
Platform(s):
Lynch |
Schlee, J., Mattick, R.E., Taylor, D.J., Girard, O.W., Grow, J., Rhodehamel, E.C., Perry, W.J., Jr., Bayer, K.C., Furbush, M., Clifford, C.P., and Lees, J.A., 1975, Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-353, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr75353.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Seismic refraction | --- | Sonobuoy | |
Echosounder | --- | Single Beam | |
Marine magnetometer | --- | Magnetics | |
Gravity meter (wh) | --- | Gravity | |
Loran-C | --- | Navigation | 1973-001-FA-LN-001-01 (Cruise track chart for May 25-31 and June 12-13, 1973 with days and 15 minute positions.) 1973-001-FA-LN-001-03 (Lines BD, FG, GH (pdf file) Part 2 of cruise track chart with line numbers, days, and 15 minute positions.) 1973-001-FA-LN-001-04 (Lines AB, BD, DE, EF, FG, GH (pdf file) Part 3 of cruise track chart with line numbers, days, and 15 minute positions.) 1973-001-FA-LN-001-02 (Lines AB, BD, GH (pdf file) Part 1 of cruise track chart with line numbers, days, and 15 minute positions.) |
Air gun | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun | |
Single channel hydrophone | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Bubble Gun Sparker Sub Bottom Profiler | 1973-001-FA-SE-002 (microfilm of LINES AB,BD,DE,EF,FG,GH) 1973-001-FA-SE-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines ) |