Other ID: Acadiana 87-2
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): Stephen Bosse, Arnell Forde
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect geophysical and sedimentological data in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including shallow subsurface data in the form of high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles (HRSP).
Vehicle(s): Unknown
Start Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 1987-06-15
End Date: 1987-06-26
Equipment Used: GPS , ORE Geopulse, Benthos Mesh Hydrophones with Triton Elics SBLogger
Information to be Derived: Sub-bottom profile images
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected approximately 1506.145 line-kilometers of analog seismic data.
Staff: Jack Kindinger
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: The Acadiana 87-2 geophysical cruise included seismic data collected in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chandeleur Sound, and Mississippi Sound from June 15-26, 1987. Data collection and processing methods are described in USGS Data Series 1047.
Location:
Northern Gulf of Mexico
Boundaries | |||
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North: 30.36147072 | South: 28.99494472 | West: -89.81872559 | East: -88.10070801 |
Platform(s):
Acadiana |
Bosse, S.T., Flocks, J.G., Forde, A.S., 2017, Archive of digitized analog boomer seismic reflection data collected during U.S. Geological Survey cruise Acadiana 87-2 in the northern Gulf of Mexico, June 1987: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7F47MC2.
Hollis, R.J., Wallace, D.J., Miner, M.D., Gal, N.S., Dike, C., Flocks, J.G., 2019, Late Quaternary evolution and stratigraphic framework influence on coastal systems along the north-central Gulf of Mexico, USA: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 223, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105910.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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GPS | --- | Navigation | Navigation_A87-2 (Long range navigation (LORAN) system geographic position data (.txt).) CruiseTracklines_A87-2 (Cruise trackline location shapefile) |
ORE Geopulse | --- | Boomer Sub Bottom Profiler | |
Benthos Mesh Hydrophones with Triton Elics SBLogger | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Bubble Gun Sparker | Profileswithheaders_A87-2 (Printable seismic profiles with headers ) SEGY_A87-2 (Digitally-converted seismic profiles, in SEG-Y format (.seg).) |