Other ID: 81-G-6-2; 81-G-5
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Ronald J. Miller
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Current, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect high-resolution seismics to produce a hazard map and geologic interpretation of study area.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Galveston, TX
End Port/Location: Galveston, TX
Start Date: 1981-04-18
End Date: 1981-04-28
Equipment Used: 3.5 kHz, Air gun, 12 kHz, Sparker , Marine magnetometer, Gravity meter (wh), Current Drift Bottle, Integrated Navigation System, Single channel hydrophone
Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: There were 1500 km of good quality high-resolution seismics and sidescan sonar, 46 grab samples, 40 drift bottle stations, and 75 km of magnetics and gravity.
Staff: James E. Dodd, Barry Irwin, David Mason, David Nichols, Kenneth F. Parolski
Affiliate Staff:
USGS-Corpus Christi: Ron Miller - Co-Ch. Sci.
Jack Kindinger
Linda Massingill - Geol.
Ronnie Wells - Geol.
Betty Reed - Typist
Chuck Stelting - Phy. Sci. Tech.
Doug Owens - Phys. Sci. Tech.
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Barry Irwin - Nav., Jim Dodd - Nav., David Mason - Elec. Tech., Kenneth Parolski - Elec. Tech., Dave Nichols - Elec. Tech.
Project = Louisiana-Mississippi OCS, Louisiana-Mississippi OCS
Location:
Mississippi shelf, Louisiana shelf, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 30.2 | South: 28.95 | West: -89 | East: -88.3 |
Platform(s):
Gyre |
Kindinger, J.L., Miller, R.J., Stelting, C.E., and Bouma, A.H., 1982, Depositional history of Louisiana-Mississippi outer continental shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-1077, 59 p., available online https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr821077.
Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
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Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Brief chief scientist's cruise report including personnel list, equipment and a few comments. Also contains the NOAA general cruise inventory sheets. |
Navigation log | Integrated Navigation System | Integrated Navigation System logbook for Legs 1 and 2 (81007 and 81008) containing day and time, line number, course, speed, latitude, and longitude with irregular fixes and data acquisition notes. |
Geophysics log | Single channel hydrophone | Seismic log containing line numbers, start and end times, sparker, 3.5 kHz, 12 kHz and airgun configuration and performance. |
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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3.5 kHz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
Air gun | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun | |
12 kHz | --- | Single Beam | |
Sparker | --- | Sparker | |
Marine magnetometer | --- | Magnetics | |
Gravity meter (wh) | --- | Gravity | 1981-008-FA-GP-001 (Digital tape(s) of NV-INS, NV,GR, ) |
Current Drift Bottle | --- | Current | |
Integrated Navigation System | --- | Navigation | 1981-008-FA-LN-001 (Digital tape(s) of NV-INS, NV,GR, ) |
Single channel hydrophone | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Bubble Gun Sparker Sub Bottom Profiler | 1981-008-FA-SE-001 (analog tape of seismic data) |