Other ID: L-5-83-HW,83012
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Frank T. Manheim
Affiliate Investigator(s): Frank Manheim
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Investigate ferromanganese crusts with emphasis on cobalt-rich crusts via dredging and hard substrate corer (Manheim-Burke type), sidescan sonar, photography, water sampling, and bottom instrument packaging emplacement on Horizon Seamount.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Honolulu, HI
End Port/Location: Pago Pago, American Samoa and Pago Pago, American Samoa
Start Date: 1983-10-29
End Date: 1983-11-26
Equipment Used: Air gun, Sidescan sonar, Video camera - deep sea, Box corer, Slow corer, Grab sampler, Gravity corer, Dredge, Loran-C, Single channel hydrophone, 3.5khz, 12khz, airgun, sidescansonar, underwatercamera, underwatertelevision, boxcore, pistoncore, Soutargrab, gravitycore, chaindredge, CTD, penetrometer, 3.5 kHz
Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Samples and chemical analysis;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Lines: 36; Gravity cores: 3; Piston cores: 7; Chain dredge samples: 62.
Staff: Frank T. Manheim, William Schwab
Affiliate Staff:
George Tate
Geologist; Jeff Stampfer
Mechanical Technician; Jim Nicholson
Electronics Technician; Kevin O'Toole
Mechanical Technician; Michael Boyle
Electronics Technician; Aaron Dunwald
Chief Engineer; Alice Davis
Watchstander; Hank Chezar
Watchstander; Joe Ritchey
Watchstander; John Robinson
Watchstander; Robin Bouse
Navigator; Kaye Kinoshita
Navigator; Rosemary Sliney
Navigator; Doris Puteanus
Watchstander - Technical University
Clausthal
Germany; Vesna Marchig
Watchstander - German Geological Survey
Bill Schwab - Geologist
Joe Ritchey - Watchstander
Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-5-83-hw.070, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 6590 kilometers.
Location:
Kingman Island
Boundaries | |||
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North: 22.76492674 | South: -5.38268992 | West: -169.85304088 | East: -157.49033147 |
Platform(s):
Samuel Phillips Lee |
Hein, J.R., Manheim, F.T., Schwab, W.C., Davis, A.S., Daniel, C.L., Bouse, R.M., Morgenson, L.A., Sliney, R.E., Clague, D., Tate, G.B., and Cacchione, D.A., 1985, Geological and geochemical data for seamounts and associated ferromanganese crusts in and near the Hawaiian, Johnston Island and Palmyra Island Exclusive Economic Zones: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-292, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr85292.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Air gun | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun | |
Sidescan sonar | --- | Sidescan | |
Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
Box corer | --- | Biology Geology | |
Slow corer | --- | Geology | |
Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
Gravity corer | --- | Geology | |
Dredge | --- | Biology Geology | |
Loran-C | --- | Navigation | 1983-012-FA-LN-001 (Navigation data) |
Single channel hydrophone | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Bubble Gun Sparker Sub Bottom Profiler | 1983-012-FA-SE-001 (microfilm of FROM MENLO-DONATED BY SCHWAB) |
3.5khz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
12khz | --- | Single Beam | |
airgun | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun | |
sidescansonar | --- | Sidescan | |
underwatercamera | --- | Photo | |
underwatertelevision | --- | Video | |
boxcore | --- | Biology Geology | |
pistoncore | --- | Geology | |
Soutargrab | --- | Geology | |
gravitycore | --- | Geology | |
chaindredge | --- | Geology | |
CTD | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Experiments (geochemical) CTD | |
penetrometer | --- | Geology | |
3.5 kHz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler |