Field Activity Details for field activity 1967-001-FA

Other ID: ASP

Status: Completed

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

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Principal Investigator(s): Claude (Wylie) Poag

Affiliate Investigator(s): Oil Consortium

Information Specialist(s): Claude (Wylie) Poag

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Oil consortium (Exxon, Chevron, Gulf, Mobil) to conduct additional deep stratigraphic coring on the U.S. Atlantic slope complementing previous offshore deep exploration (FA 65001) to obtain cores from 13 Holes on the shelf, slope, and canyons of the middle Atlantic region.

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Start Date: 1967-01-01

End Date: 1967-12-31

Equipment Used: Rotary core

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Wells: 13 (ASPs 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 23; ASPs 8 and 13 not sampled by USGS).

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Project = Atlantic Slope Project, Atlantic Slope Project

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Blake Plateau, Blake Nose, Blake Escarpment, Cape Hatteras, Baltimore Canyon Trough, Norfolk Canyon, Washington Canyon, Veatch Canyon, Georges Bank Basin, U.S. Atlantic Continental Slope, North America, North Atlantic;

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