Field Activity Details for field activity 1970-014-FA

Other ID: DSDP Leg 11

Status: Completed

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

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Principal Investigator(s): John C. Hathaway

Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles D. Hollister - Co-Chief Sci., WHOI; John I. Ewing - Co-Chief Sci., LDGO

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: During this eight-week cruise, 11 sites were drilled in the western North Atlantic in an attempt to achieve the broad scientific goals of the project and to pursue the more specific objectives outlined as follows: 1. to recover the oldest in-place material from the top of the ocean crust as near the continental margin as possible in an attempt to date the age of the western Atlantic, and from this data infer the age of the breakup of North America and Africa; 2. to determine the paleo-environment of the developing Atlantic; 3. to sample and date the prominent seismic reflection horizons that lie below much of the western Atlantic; and 4. to determine the composition and origin of the massive accumulation of sediment that forms the Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge system and continental rise off North America.

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Start Port/Location: Miami, FL

End Port/Location: Hoboken, NJ

Start Date: 1970-04-08

End Date: 1970-06-01

Equipment Used: Grab sampler

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

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Well holes: 12 (#98, 99, 99A, 100, 101, 101A, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 106A, 106B, 107, 108); Cores: 150 (recovered 2083 ft., 635 m).

Staff: John C. Hathaway

Affiliate Staff:
WHOI: Charles D. Hollister - Co-Chief Sci.; LDGO: John I. Ewing - Co-Chief Sci.
Tom Aitken - Marine Tech.; Universite de Paris: Yves Lancelot - Sedimentologist; Superior Oil Company: Fred J. Paulus - Sedimentologist; Queens College
NY: Daniel Habib - Palynologist; Esso Production Research European: Hanspeter Luterbacher - Paleontologist; Texas A&M University: C. Wylie Poag - Paleontologist; Chevron Oil Company: James A. Wilcoxon - Paleontologist; Gulf Oil Corp.: James A. Dawson - Cruise Operations Manager; NOAA: Charles Green - Meteorologist
Melvin Fields - Meteorologist; Global Marine Inc.: Cotton Guess - Drilling Superintendent; Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO): Paula Worstell - Paleontologist
Michael Lehmann - Laboratory Officer
Ted Gustafson - Laboratory Officer
Lloyd Russill - Electronics Tech.
Pete Garrow - Electronics Tech.
George Jones - Photographer
Larry Lauve - Photographer
William P. Jones - Marine Tech.
Jack Minteer - Chemist
David Bos - Chemist
Don Cameron - Marine Tech.
Sandy Campbell - Marine Tech.
Del Cover - Marine Tech.
Ken Forsman - Marine Tech.
Burney Hamlin - Marine Tech.

Notes: Original Center People field contained: John Hathaway, Sedimentologist.
Project = DSDP, DSDP

Location:

Cat Gap, Bahamas, Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge, eastern U.S. Atlantic continental rise, continental shelf, North America, North Atlantic;

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