Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Arnell Forde, Dana Wiese
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To create a complete modern topobathymetric map of the Mississippi barrier islands from Cat Island to Dauphin Island. Data to provide information for the following: sediment budget; assessment of immediate sand resources in the region, modern geologic framework; historical island change measurements; base-level assessment of the seafloor since the 2005 hurricane season
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
End Port/Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Start Date: 2010-04-14
End Date: 2010-04-30
Equipment Used: Applanix POS-MV DGPS/IMU, Chirp 512i, Klein Side Scan Sonar, Multibeam Bathymetry System
Information to be Derived: Submetrix swath bathymetry data; shallow sub-bottom image profiles, sediment thickness and side-scan sonar mosaics
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Geophysical data including side scan sonar, bathymetry and sub-bottom profiles were successfully acquired during this survey.
Staff: James Flocks, Dana Wiese
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Additional Equipment: L3900 Klein Side Scan Towfish (USGS); Multibeam RESON SeaBat 8125 (USACE) and DGPS‚ Applanix POS MV (USACE).
Location:
Horn Island, MS to Dauphin Island, AL
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.60574191 | South: 29.64809452 | West: -89.5138 | East: -87.67133129 |
Platform(s):
 Irvington |
DeWitt, N.T., Flocks, J.G., Pfeiffer, W.R., Gibson, J.N., Wiese, D.S., 2012, Archive of side scan sonar and multibeam bathymetry data collected during USGS cruise 10CCT03 offshore from the Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, from East Ship Island, MS, to Dauphin Island, AL, April 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 671, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds671.
Flocks, J., Forde, A., 2025, Shallow Geologic Framework of the Mississippi Sound and the Potential for Sediment Resources: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report (2025-5100), https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20255100.
Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J., Kelso, K.W., Bernier, J.C., DeWitt, N.T., FitzHarris, M., 2015, Near-surface stratigraphy and morphology, Mississippi Inner Shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1014, 26 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151014.
Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J.L., Kelso, K.W., 2015, Geologic control on the evolution of the inner shelf morphology offshore of the Mississippi barrier islands, northern Gulf of Mexico, USA: Continental Shelf Research, v. 101, pp. 59–70, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2015.04.008.
Forde, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Wiese, D.S., DeWitt, N.T., Pfeiffer, W.R., Kelso, K.W., Thompson, P.R., 2011, Archive of digital CHIRP sub-bottom profile data collected during USGS cruises 10CCT01, 10CCT02, and 10CCT03, Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Islands, March and April 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 611, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds611.
Gal, N.S., Wallace, D.J., Miner, M.D., Hollis, R.J., Dike, C., Flocks, J.G., 2021, Influence of antecedent geology on the Holocene formation and evolution of Horn Island, Mississippi, USA: Marine Geology, v. 431, 106375 p., doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106375.
Twichell, D.C., Pendleton, E.A., Flocks, J.G., Baldwin, W.E., Foster, D.S., 2011, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore of the western part of the Mississippi barrier islands: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1173, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111173.
Twichell, D.C., Pendleton, E.A., Flocks, J.G., Baldwin, W.E., and Foster, D.S., 2011, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore of the Mississippi Barrier Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1173, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111173.
FAN 10CCT03 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=10CCT03.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applanix POS-MV DGPS/IMU | --- | Navigation | Processed 1,000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation Processed Shotpoint Navigation |
| Chirp 512i | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | 10CCT03-SE-pd-4 (Chirp 512i data GeoMapApp) 10CCT03-SE-pd-1 (Chirp 512i data navigation) 10CCT03-SE-pd-2 (Chirp 512i data profiles) 10CCT03-SE-pd-3 (Chirp 512i data GIS) 10CCT03-SE-pd-5 (Chirp 512i data agc SEGY) |
| Klein Side Scan Sonar | --- | Sidescan | 10CCT03-BS-pd-1 (Sidescan sonar mosaic as GeoTiff) 10CCT03-BS-pd-2 (Sidescan sonar interpolated grid of x,y,z values in ASCII format) |
| Multibeam Bathymetry System | --- | Multibeam | DS 671 multibeam GeoTIFF (Mutlibeam bathymetry grids as GeoTiff (4 total)) DS 671 multibeam raster grids (Multibeam bathymetric grids in ASCII format, 50-m resolution (4 total)) DS 671 multibeam point grids (Multibeam bathymetric grids in point format, 50-m resolution (4 total)) |
