High-resolution multichannel seismic reflection data collected along the New England outer continental shelf, slope, and rise south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2016-018-FA
By Wayne E. Baldwin and Nathaniel C. Miller
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R3VW5H
Dates
Published: July 21, 2023
Data Collected: June 11, 2016 – June 12, 2016
Summary
High resolution multichannel seismic-reflection data were collected along the New England outer continental shelf, slope, and rise south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) research vessel Neil Armstrong on June 11 - 12, 2016 in order to characterize the stratigraphy of a portion of the New England continental margin incised by submarine canyons and showing evidence of mass transport processes. The activity was conducted as a part of the Science Verification Leg 5 (AR5) for the new vessel.
Seismic Data
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High-resolution multichannel seismic reflection data collected along the New England outer continental shelf, slope, and rise south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2016-018-FA
This dataset contains shot coordinate navigation, common mid-point (CMP) coordinate and trackline navigation, profile images, and processed stack and raw SEG-Y trace data for approximately 212 km of multichannel seismic-reflection data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during USGS field activity 2016-018-FA along the New England outer continental shelf, slope, and rise south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts. Images of each seismic profile were generated in order to provide portable and easily viewable alternatives to the SEG-Y versions of the data. Each profile image can be hyperlinked to its corresponding trackline navigation contained within the Esri polyline shapefile '2016-008-FA_MCS_cmpTracklines.shp'. CMP tick marks along the top of the PNG images correlate to the positions of 500 CMP intervals within the Esri point shapefile '2016-018-FA_MCS_cmp500.shp'. This information allows for spatial correlation of MCS seismic-reflection profiles images with other geophysical data for investigating sea-floor morphology and stratigraphy in the area.
Data Files
2016-018-FA_Line-01.sht-raw_geom.sgy.zip - 13.9 GB
2016-018-FA_Line-02.sht-raw_geom.sgy.zip - 4.1 GB
2016-018-FA_Line-03.sht-raw_geom.sgy.zip - 10.2 GB
2016-018-FA_Line-04.sht-raw_geom.sgy.zip - 18.6 GB
2016-018-FA_MCS_cmpnav.csv.zip - 618.8 KB
2016-018-FA_MCS_cmpTracklines_browse.jpg - 174.5 KB
2016-018-FA_MCS_Images.zip - 63.1 MB
2016-018-FA_MCS_Shapefiles.zip - 810.5 KB
2016-018-FA_MCS_shtnav.csv.zip - 372.7 KB
2016-018-FA_MCS_StackSegyData.zip - 1.3 GB
Metadata Files
2016-018-FA_MCS_meta.xml - 55.0 KB
2016-018-FA_MCS_meta.txt - 54.9 KB
Suggested Citation
Baldwin, W.E. and Miller, N.C., 2023, High-resolution multichannel seismic reflection data collected along the New England outer continental shelf, slope, and rise south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2016-018-FA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R3VW5H.
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