Other ID: 84-3
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Thomas O'Brien
Affiliate Investigator(s): John A. Grow, USGS-Denver
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sonobuoy
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geologic investigations of two nuclear craters.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location:
End Port/Location:
Start Date: 1984-08-21
End Date: 1984-09-20
Equipment Used: Multichannel seismics, Seismic refraction, Echosounder, Video camera - deep sea, Grab sampler
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Seismic profiles for OAK and KOA craters; fathometer strip charts; diver cores.
Staff: David Mason, David Nichols, Thomas O'Brien
Affiliate Staff:
USGS-Denver: John Grow - Ch. Sci.
J. J. Miller; Seismic Data Systems
Inc.: T. Owens; USGS-St. Pete: E. A. Shinn - diver
R. Halley - diver
Hudson - diver
J. Kindinger - diver; USGS: T.W. Henry
B. R. Wardlaw; Meridian Ocean Systems
Inc. (MOS): R.F. Johnson
S.L. Thoresen; Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA): E.L. Tremba
R.F. Couch
Notes: No post-cruise report found; information derived from USGS Bulletin 1678. Submitted 03/30/2009 by A. Orton for T. O'Brien.
Project = Pacific Enewetak Atoll Crater Exploration (PEACE), Pacific Enewetak Atoll Crater Exploration (PEACE)
From the associated publication: multichannel and refraction seismic profiles and additional sea-floor descriptions and bottom samples on the third leg (August 21 to September 20, 1984)
Location:
Enewetak Atoll, Enewetok, Marshall Islands, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI), North Pacific;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 11.8 | South: 11.2 | West: 161.9 | East: 162.5 |
Platform(s):
Egabrag II | Halimeda | MWRA Whaler |
Joseph, A.J., Hudson, J.H., Halley, R.B., 1990, Listing of coral cores and slabs at the United States Geological Survey Coastal Center 600 4th St. South St. Petersburg FL: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-45, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9145.
Reich, C., Streubert, M., Dwyer, B., Godbout, M., Muslic, A., Umberger, D., 2012, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center's core archive portal: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 626, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds626.
Folger, D.W., 1986, Introduction, in Folger, D.W., ed., Sea-floor observations and subbottom seismic characteristics of OAK and KOA craters, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1678, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/b1678.
Folger, D.W., Hampson, J.C., Robb, J.M., Woellner, R.A., Foster, D.S., and Tavares, L.A., 1986, Bathymetry of OAK and KOA craters, Chapter A in Folger, D.W., ed., Sea-floor observations and subbottom seismic characteristics of OAK and KOA craters, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1678, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/b1678.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Multichannel seismics | --- | Multichannel | |
Seismic refraction | --- | Sonobuoy | |
Echosounder | --- | Single Beam | |
Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology |