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Field Activity Details for field activity 1975-304-FA

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Other ID: MAFLA 1975; MAFLA-OCS

Status: Pending

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): Arnell Forde

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To investigate the shallow geologic framework along the MAFLA-OCS.

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 1975-07-25

End Date: 1975-08-17

Equipment Used: ORE Geopulse

Information to be Derived: Sub-bottom profiles

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected more than 3,700 kilometers (km) of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles using an EG&G Uniboom profiler.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Outer continental shelf waters of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida (MAFLA-OCS).

Boundaries
North: 30.29353474 South: 25.73063253 West: -88.14554214 East: -82.32622147

Platform(s):


Leased Vessel
photo of Decca Profiler
Decca Profiler

Publications

Smullen, B.F., Forde, A.S., Flocks, J.G., 2025, Archive of Digitized Analog Boomer Seismic Reflection Data Collected Offshore of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida in 1975: MAFLA 1975: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14HK9XR.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ORE Geopulse --- Boomer
Sub Bottom Profiler

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