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Field Activity Details for field activity 1979-030-FA

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Other ID: 79-5

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Robert N. Oldale

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect 1-inch airgun data across Buzzards Bay moraine.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1979-09-20

End Date: 1979-09-25

Equipment Used: Loran-C, Single channel hydrophone, Air gun

Information to be Derived: Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: The cruise took a total of 8 hours over three days: Sep. 20, 24, and 25, 1979. Airgun: 37 km.

Staff: Nina Lian, Paul Loud, Charles J. O'Hara, Robert N. Oldale

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Project = Massachusetts Co-op, Massachusetts Co-op

Location:

Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.57 South: 41.33333 West: -71 East: -70.58

Platform(s):

photo of Neecho
Neecho

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Brief handwritten cruise report describing the cruise, personnel, and equipment.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Loran-C --- Navigation
1979-030-FA-LN-002 (Digital tapes of NV, NV-NSTAR, and NV-NSTAR-FINAL data: inv. # 1433, 1843, 2049, and 2811.)
1979-030-FA-LN-001-01 (Computer-generated trackmap with 6-minute fixes.)
1979-030-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79030)
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
1979-030-FA-SE-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines )
1979-030-FA-SE-002 (microfilm of )
Air gun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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