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Field Activity Details for field activity 1985-043-FA

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Other ID: LACOSS 6

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John West

Affiliate Investigator(s): John Suter, Shea Penland - LGS

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1985-05-15

End Date: 1985-05-21

Equipment Used: ORE GeoPulse, Loran-C, 3.5 kHz, Single channel hydrophone

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Datasonics 3.5: Lines CI1-CI7, MB1-MB14, CI8-CI48. ORE GeoPulse: Lines CI1-CI7, MB1-MB14, CI8-CI48. Sidescan Sonar: Lines MB8, MB10.

Staff: James C. McFarlen, John West

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: No cruise report; information derived from seismic analog tape log.
Project = Louisiana Cooperative Sand Survey, Louisiana Cooperative Sand Survey

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana continental shelf, Louisiana, United States, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 30.28963971 South: 29.34281121 West: -89.37320157 East: -88.72404826

Platform(s):

photo of R J Russell
R J Russell

Publications

Bosse, S.T., Flocks, J.G., Forde, A.S., 2020, Archive of digitized analog boomer seismic reflection data collected from the Northern Gulf of Mexico: 1982, 1985, 1989, 1991, and 1992: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YA25SF.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Geophysics log (document not focused on specific equipment) Watchstander's log describing seismic analog line and tape start and end times and comments.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ORE GeoPulse --- Boomer
Loran-C --- Navigation
1985-043-FA-LN-001-03 (Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; May 17, 0200, 1985 - May 18, 1930, 1985.)
1985-043-FA-LN-001-04 (Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; May 19, 1600, 1985 - May 21, 0940, 1985.)
1985-043-FA-LN-001-01 (Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; May 15, 1709, 1985 - May 16, 2330, 1985.)
1985-043-FA-LN-001-02 (Rescued navigation file from 5-minute-fix plot file with latitude, longitude and time annotation; May 16, 1985.)
3.5 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
1985-043-FA-SE-001 (analog tape of seismic data)

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