Other ID: GYRE 82-11; 11-G-82; 82-G-11
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Frank T. Manheim
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Paul Bowker
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Test new techniques to determine thickness, distribution and quality of mineral deposits on the Blake Plateau with special reference to manganese nodules and manganese-phosphate pavements; obtain ANGUS/ARGUS wide-angle bottom photos for visual ground truthing; collect pavement core samples; determine nodule concentration via MFES; and determine mineral thickness via seismic reflection/refraction.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Morehead City, NC
End Port/Location: Miami, FL
Start Date: 1982-09-18
End Date: 1982-09-28
Equipment Used: Dredge, Gravity corer, Gravity meter (wh), Integrated Navigation System, ANGUS deep tow camera system, 3.5 kHz
Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Camera lowerings - Approx. 45 hrs. and 18,000 photos; High-resolution acoustic profiling: 1000 km; MFES profiling: 100 km; Bottom reflection lowerings: 3; Bottom refraction experiment: 1; Dredges: 18 (300 kg rocks recovered); Cores: 11.
Staff: Candy Bostwick, Paul Bowker, Raymond E. Hall, Frank T. Manheim, Gregory Miller
Affiliate Staff:
Sue Williams - Navigation and Data Curator; WHOI: Beecher Wooding - Chief Core Tech.
Earl Young - ANGUS/ARGUS system team head
John Porteus - ANGUS/ARGUS system team head
Rodney Catanach - ANGUS/ARGUS system team head; Sumitomo Metal Mining Co.
Tokyo: H. Yoshida - Multifrequency acoustic system
K. Kawasaki; USGS-Reston
VA: John DeYoung - Watch and Geostatistics
Phil Aruscavage - Watch; Virginia Polytechic Institute: Karl Sundquist - Watch and Acoustics; Datasonics Corp: Dave Porta - Acoutsics; Texas A&M: Theo Duis - Marine Technician; Ship Crew: D. Armand - Master
R. Else - First Officer
B. Proda - 2nd Officer
J. Cussen - Chief Engineer
R.V. Pittman - Electrician Duelly OS
D. Davis - Deck Engineer
A. Doschall - Asst. Engineer
T. Gayton - AB
R. Danesi - Steward
A. Schmidt - O.S.
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Frank Manheim - Chief Scientist; Paul C. Bowker - Curator, Core and Dredging; Sue Williams - Navigation and Data Curator; Greg Miller - Electronics Technician; Ray Hall - Watch and Paleontology; Candy Lane - Watch.
Project = Ocean hard mineral resources, Ocean hard mineral resources
Location:
Blake Plateau, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 33.33333 | South: 30.56917 | West: -79 | East: -77.26667 |
Platform(s):
Gyre |
Popenoe, P., and Manheim, F.T., 2001, Origin and history of the Charleston Bump--geological formations, currents, bottom conditions, and their relationship to Wreckfish habitats on the Blake Plateau, in Sedberry, G.R., ed., Island in the Stream--Oceanography and Fisheries of the Charleston Bump: American Fisheries Society Symposium, v. 25.
Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
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Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's cruise report containing personnel, equpment and data acquisition notes, seismic line lists, and station locations. |
Data inventory | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Cruise Curator's Data Inventory of data items collected during voyage. |
Navigation log | Integrated Navigation System | Navigation Log (pdf file) Integrated Navigation System and Loran-C log with time, latitude, longitude, and remarks, including coring, sampling, and geophysical data acquisition remarks. |
Sample log | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Handwritten field sample logsheets for both cores and dredges. |
Sample log | Dredge | Partial Sample Log (pdf file) Handwritten notes for Dredge 2 and Stations 2, 6, and 7. |
Geophysics log | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Geophysics Log (pdf file) Data acquisition notes for the 3.5 kHz system, Datasonics fish, and Angus system. |
Multifrequency Exploration System Logbook | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Multifrequency Exploration System Logbook (MFES) acoustic monitoring log with equipment configurations and observations. |
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Dredge | --- | Biology Geology | 1982-034-FA-SC-001 (DREDGE samples) |
Gravity corer | --- | Geology | |
Gravity meter (wh) | --- | Gravity | 1982-034-FA-GP-001 (Digital tape(s) of NV, NV,GR-SAT-INS, ) |
Integrated Navigation System | --- | Navigation | 1982-034-FA-LN-002 (Digital tape(s) of NV, NV,GR-SAT-INS, ) 1982-034-FA-LN-001-01 (Scan of trackchart for Area 3: Inv. # TK00530.) 1982-034-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 82034) |
ANGUS deep tow camera system | --- | Photo Video Single Beam | 1982-034-FA-SE-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 15K*) for lines ) 1982-034-FA-SE-002 (microfilm of *-MOUNTED,3.5 DEEP TOW,3.5 BOTTOM PINGER,12.5 ANGUS) |
3.5 kHz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | 1982-034-FA-SE-003 (analog tape of seismic data) |