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Field Activity Details for field activity 1974-010-FA

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Other ID: Line IPOD, S-2-74-NA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John Grow

Affiliate Investigator(s): Digicon, Inc. - contractor

Information Specialist(s): Other

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Multichannel

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain multichannel Line IPOD running from Cape Hatteras across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: unknown

End Port/Location: unknown

Start Date: 1974-10-17

End Date: 1974-11-07

Equipment Used: Multichannel seismics, Loran-C, Magnetometer (wh), Magnavox satellite positioning system, Sonar Doppler, Other

Information to be Derived: Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Geophysical Services, Inc. processed the data resulting in 1520 km of 36-channel demultiplexed data with 50 m shotpoint spacing. CDP multichannel seismic line: IPOD (3400 km).

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:
Digicon
Inc. field party chief Jack Friesen

Notes: seismic data at PCMSC on FAD
Platform Gulf Seal (from InfoBank)
Project = International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD), International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD)

Location:

Cape Hatteras to mid-Atlantic ocean ridge rift valley, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 35 South: 22 West: -76 East: -45

Platform(s):


Gulf Seal

Publications

Agena, W.F., Hutchinson, D.R., Lee, M.W., and Oliver, H.L., 1993, Cape Hatteras to the Mid Atlantic Ridge — Demultiplexing and archiving a unique multichannel seismic reflection data set: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-264, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr93264.

Agena, W.F., Hutchinson, D.R., Lee, M.W., and Oliver, H.L., 1993, Cape Hatteras to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - demultiplexing and archiving a unique multichannel seismic reflection data set: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-264, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr93264.

Grow, J.A., Mattick, R.E., and Schlee, J.S., 1979, Multichannel seismic depth sections and interval velocities over outer continental shelf and upper continental slope between Cape Hatteras and Cape Cod; in Watkins, J.S., Montadert, L., and Dickerson, P.W., eds., Geological and geophysical investigations of continental margins: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Memoir 29, , URL: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70129669.

Grow, J.A., and Markl, Rudi G., 1977, IPOD-USGS multichannel seismic reflection profile from Cape Hatteras to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Geology, v. 5 no. 10, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1977)5<625:IMSRPF>2.0.CO;2.

Hutchinson, D.R., Poag, C.W., Johnson, A.H., Popenoe, P. and Wright, C., 1997, Geophysical database of the east coast of the United States; southern Atlantic margin, stratigraphy and velocity in map grids: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-55, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9655.

Hutchinson, D.R., Poag, C.W., and Popenoe, P., 1995, Geophysical database of the east coast of the United States; southern Atlantic margin, stratigraphy and velocity from multichannel seismic profiles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-27, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9527.

Klitgord, K.D., Poag, C.W., Schneider, C.M., and North, L., 1994, Geophysical database of the East Coast of the United States northern Atlantic margin—Cross sections and gridded database (Georges Bank Basin, Long Island Platform, and Baltimore Canyon Trough): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-637, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr94637.

Klitgord, K.D., and Schneider, C.M., Geophysical database of the east coast of the United States northern Atlantic margin—Velocity analyses: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-192, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr94192.

Zihlman, F.N., Abston, C.C., Taylor, D.J., Agena, W.F., and Oliver, H.L., 1994, International phase of ocean drilling—Seismic Line 1 demultiplexed data, Cape Hatteras to Mid-Atlantic Ridge: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 13, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds13.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Observer log Multichannel seismics Observer Logs (pdf) Contractor Digicon, Inc. observer logs. (680 pages)

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Multichannel seismics --- Multichannel
1974-010-FA-SE-001-02 (CD ROM disk of IPOD lines, NAVOCEANO ATLANTIC PLOTS, )
1974-010-FA-SE-001-05 (scanned record sections of Lines IPOD, )
1974-010-FA-SE-001-01 (Paper record section of Lines IPOD, )
1974-010-FA-SE-001-04 (SEG-Y demux data files for Line IPOD.)
1974-010-FA-SE-001-03 (List of SEG-Y Files (text file) List of SEG-Y demux and stack files migrated from 9-track tapes to CD-ROM.)
Loran-C --- Navigation
1974-010-FA-LN-002 (Contractors tape list with positions)
1974-010-FA-LN-001-04 (Shotpoint Map (tif file) Shotpoint map for IPOD line.)
1974-010-FA-LN-001-03 (Shotpoint Navigation (txt file) Shotpoint navigation with latitude/longitude coordinates.)
1974-010-FA-LN-001-02 (Trackchart (original file))
1974-010-FA-LN-001-05 (Contracted Atlantic Marine Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data Tracklines (pdf file) Generalized track map depicting several data sets including IPOD line collected by Digicon aboard the GULF SEAL.)
1974-010-FA-LN-001-01 (Raw navigation data (original file))
Magnetometer (wh) --- Magnetics
1974-010-FA-GP-001 (Digital tapes of MG-IPOD: inventory #0846, 0848, and 0981.)
Magnavox satellite positioning system --- Navigation
Sonar Doppler --- Navigation
Other --- --- ---

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