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Field Activity Details for field activity 1983-017-FA

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Other ID: LACOSS IV

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John West

Affiliate Investigator(s): John Suter, Shea Penland - LGS

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Bubble Gun, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1983-09-15

End Date: 1983-09-18

Equipment Used: ORE GeoPulse, EG&G 234, Single channel hydrophone, Loran-C

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Boomer/GeoPulse Lines: G21-G42; GeoPulse Lines: SS1-SS15, TS1-TS8.

Staff: Douglass Owen, John West

Affiliate Staff:
John Suter
Shea Penland

Notes: No cruise report; information derived from analog tape log. Hard copies of Uniboom profiles in St. Petersburg office.
Project = LACOSS, LACOSS

Location:

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

Boundaries
North: 30.40636 South: 27.33274 West: -93.386 East: -88.11035

Platform(s):

photo of R J Russell
R J Russell

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Seismic log (document not focused on specific equipment) Seismic Analog Tape Log (pdf file) Watchstander's log describing seismic analog equipment configuration, line and tape start and end times.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ORE GeoPulse --- Boomer
EG&G 234 --- Boomer
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
1983-017-FA-SE-001 (analog tape of seismic data)
Loran-C --- Navigation
1983-017-FA-LN-001-03 (Navigation File LACOS10 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Sep. 16, 1983, 0400 - Sep. 18, 1983, 0355.)
1983-017-FA-LN-001-01 (Navigation File LACOS08 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Sep. 15, 1983, 1635 - Sep. 17, 1983, 0900.)
1983-017-FA-LN-001-02 (Navigation File LACOS09 (txt file) Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; Sep. 18, 1983, 0356 - Sep. 18, 1983, 1210.)
1983-017-FA-LN-001 (Digital tape(s) of NV, )

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