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Field Activity Details for field activity 01SCC02

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Dana Wiese

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Characterize near-surface geology as it relates to sediment inventory

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Furchon, LA

End Port/Location: Port Furchon, LA

Start Date: 2001-08-01

End Date: 2001-08-18

Equipment Used: CSI DGPS Max, Trimble Navigation, Vibracorer, Other, Chirp 424, Applied Acoustics CSP 300, NextGen-10 channel hydrophone streamer

Information to be Derived: Sediment type, thickness, and distribution maps

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Second leg of data collection. Collected 46 boomer lines, 35 chirp lines, and vibracores.

Staff: Keith Ludwig, Dana Wiese, Richard Young

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Terrebone Bay, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.14358 South: 28.98864 West: -90.377 East: -90.1853

Platform(s):

photo of G.K. Gilbert
G.K. Gilbert

Publications

Calderon, K., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J.L., Wiese, D.S., 2003, Archive of boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruises 01SCC01 and 01SCC02, Timbalier Bay and offshore East Timbalier Island, Louisiana, June - August, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-274, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2003274.

Calderon, K., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Wiese, D.S., Kindinger, J.L., 2003, Archive of chirp seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruises 01SCC01 and 01SCC02, Timbalier Bay and offshore East Timbalier Island, Louisiana, June 30-July 9 and August 1-12, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-271, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2003271.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 01SCC02 has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=01SCC02.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
CSI DGPS Max --- Navigation
01SCC02 (all lines)-1000 (1,000-SHOT INTERVAL NAVIGATION)
01SCC02 (all lines) (EDITED SHOTPOINT NAVIGATION)
Trimble Navigation --- Navigation
Vibracorer --- Geology
Other --- --- ---
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data
Applied Acoustics CSP 300 --- Boomer
Sub Bottom Profiler
NextGen-10 channel hydrophone streamer --- Boomer
Boomer seismic data

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