Other ID: 81CA1, 81GY6
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks, Jack Kindinger
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Arnell Forde
Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sparker
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To investigate the shallow geologic framework of the Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana Shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Vehicle(s): Unknown
Start Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 1981-04-09
End Date: 1981-07-15
Equipment Used: Other, Other, Other, Other
Information to be Derived: Work was conducted to develop a geologic understanding of the study area and to locate potential hazards related to offshore oil and gas production.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Scanned images (.tif) of analog seismic profiles, navigation and GIS files.
Staff: Jordan Sanford, Dana Wiese
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: The new field activity IDs 81CA1 and 81GY6 were originally referred to as Carancahua 81-1 and Gyre 81-6 at the USGS in St. Petersburg, FL, and 81021, and 81007, and 81008 at the USGS in Woods Hole, MA.
Location:
Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana Shelf
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.28367752 | South: 29.22604199 | West: -89.53857422 | East: -87.97848075 |
Platform(s):
Carancahua |  Gyre |
Bosse, S.T., Flocks, J.G., Forde, A.S., 2018, Archive of digitized analog boomer and minisparker seismic reflection data collected from the Northern Gulf of Mexico: 1981, 1990, and 1991: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CN730G.
Sanford, J.M., Harrison, A.S., Wiese, D., Flocks, J.G., 2009, Archive of digitized analog boomer and minisparker seismic reflection data collected from the Mississippi-Alabama shelf during cruises onboard the R/V Carancahua and R/V Gyre, April and July 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 428, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds428.
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