Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Jack Kindinger, Jennifer Miselis
Affiliate Investigator(s): Dawn Lavoie
Information Specialist(s): Jack Kindinger
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Interferometric, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geomorphology, Geology, Island Evolution
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS
End Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS
Start Date: 2010-08-30
End Date: 2010-09-10
Equipment Used: Interferometric Bathymetry System, F190 DGPS/IMU, Choke Ring Antenna, Vibracorer, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Chirp 512i, Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320, Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe, Klein Side Scan
Information to be Derived: Geologic framework to determine the island geomorphology, stratigraphy and geologic history.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: A total of 119 chirp 2-D subbottom profiles, 79 swath, 9 single beam, and 9 sidescan lines were collected.
Staff: Lance Thornton, Dana Wiese, Richard Young
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Additional Equipment: Knudsen 320.
Location:
MS Barrier Islands
Boundaries | |||
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North: 30.30844651 | South: 30.17394925 | West: -89.4115 | East: -88.57241453 |
Platform(s):
G.K. Gilbert |
Buster, N.A., Pfeiffer, W.R., Miselis, J.L., Kindinger, J.L., Wiese, D.S., Reynolds, B.J., 2012, Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 739, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds739.
Forde, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Kindinger, J.L., Miselis, J.L., Wiese, D.S., Buster, N.A., 2012, Archive of digital chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 10BIM04 offshore Cat Island, Mississippi, September 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 724, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds724.
Kindinger, J.L., Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., 2014, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore from Cat Island, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1070, 83 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141070.
Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., Kindinger, J.L., 2014, Refining the link between the Holocene development of the Mississippi River Delta and the geologic evolution of Cat Island, MS: implications for delta-associated barrier islands: Marine Geology, v. 355, pp. 274–290, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.021.
FAN 10BIM04 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=10BIM04.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Interferometric Bathymetry System | --- | Interferometric | 10BIM04-BA-pd-1 (Swath Interferometric bathy grid as Geotiff) 10BIM04-BA-pd-2 (Data Series 739 GIS dataset) |
F190 DGPS/IMU | --- | Navigation | |
Choke Ring Antenna | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | No data was collected |
Vibracorer | --- | Geology | |
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | 10BIM04-BA-pd-5 (Swath bathymetry trackline shapefile) |
Chirp 512i | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | DS 724 nav (Chirp 512i data navigation) 10BIM04-SE-pd-4 (Chirp 512i data GeoMapApp) DS 724 arc (Chirp 512i data GIS) DS 724 segy (Chirp 512i data agc SEGY) DS 724 profiles (Chirp 512i data profiles) |
Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320 | --- | Single Beam | |
Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe | --- | Sound Velocity | |
Klein Side Scan | --- | Sidescan | 10BIM04-BS-pd-1 (Side Scan Sonar grid as GeoTiff) |