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Field Activity Details for field activity 1987-048-FA

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Other ID: G87-2-GM; 87-G-2

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Robert F. Commeau

Affiliate Investigator(s): James Brooks, TAMU

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological)

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1987-02-27

End Date: 1987-03-12

Equipment Used: Box corer, Piston corer

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: No field activity documentation. Constant rate of strain and triaxial tests performed on 7? cores.

Staff: Robert F. Commeau

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: No field activity documentation, only geotechnical analyses on BC10, 11, 30, 32, and 34, and on PC10, 11, 31, and 33.

Location:

Mississippi prodelta, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 29.43737 South: 27.62514 West: -90.1989 East: -87.6709

Platform(s):

photo of Gyre
Gyre
photo of NR-1
NR-1

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Data log (document not focused on specific equipment) Watchstander's position log for coring (gravity, piston), trawl navigation, CTD locations, bongo net transects, and sniffer transects. Includes locations maps for each of the data types collected.
Core log (document not focused on specific equipment) Laboratory technicians' cruise synopsis, core sections, laboratory protocols, and core visual descriptions
Core log (document not focused on specific equipment) Technicians' laboratory core section log.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Box corer --- Biology
Geology
Piston corer --- Geology

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