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Field Activity Details for field activity 1983-016-FA

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Other ID: LACOSS III

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jack Kindinger

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1983-06-30

End Date: 1983-07-05

Equipment Used: ORE GeoPulse, EG&G 234, Datasonics SST 220 sub-bottom 3.5k, Northstar 6000 LORAN-C, Single channel hydrophone

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: EG&G Boomer: Lines SS1-SS29, SR1-SR36.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: No cruise report; information derived from geophysics log. Hard copies of Uniboom lines in St. Petersburg office. Original Center People field contained: Jack Kindinger - Ch. Sci., USGS-Corpus Christi.
Project = Louisiana Co-operative Sand Survey (LACOSS), Louisiana Co-operative Sand Survey (LACOSS)

Location:

coastal Louisiana continental shelf, Louisiana, United States, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 30.40636 South: 27.05913 West: -94.2209 East: -87.71484

Platform(s):

photo of R J Russell
R J Russell

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Geophysics log (document not focused on specific equipment) Seismic Logbook (pdf file) Photocopy of Seismic Field Log describing boomer, subbottom, and Geopulse configuration, line, tape and paper roll changes, equipment performance, data acquisition notes.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ORE GeoPulse --- Boomer
EG&G 234 --- Boomer
Datasonics SST 220 sub-bottom 3.5k --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C --- Navigation
1983-016-FA-LN-001 (Digital tape(s) of NV, )
1983-016-FA-LN-001-01 (Trackmap (pdf file) Page-size trackmap.)
1983-016-FA-LN-001-04 (Navigation File LACOS06 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Jul. 5, 1983, 0330 - Jul. 5, 1983, 1435.)
1983-016-FA-LN-001-05 (Navigation File LACOS07 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Jul. 5, 1983, 0315 - Jul. 5, 1983, 0415.)
1983-016-FA-LN-001-02 (Navigation File LACOS04 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Jun. 30, 1983, 0840 - Jul. 1, 0355, 1983.)
1983-016-FA-LN-001-03 (Navigation File LACOS05 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Jul. 1, 1983, 0425 - Jul. 5, 1983, 0315.)
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
1983-016-FA-SE-001 (analog tape of seismic data)

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