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Field Activity Details for field activity 1990-014-FA

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Other ID: 90-OR-SUB-POPENOE

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Peter Popenoe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Frank Manheim; Vernon J. Henry - Georgia State U.

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: 80 miles east of Charleston: 1. To establish stratigraphic age, lithology, and phosphorite content of strata by bottom sampling of outcrop areas. 2. To determine the nature of scarps. To observe and measure fracture patterns and possible scour and bioerosion features. 3. To observe and record phosphorite pavement thickness and extent and presence and thickness of manganese rinds. 4. To assess the benthic ecology of the study area, with particular emphasis on sessile epifauna. 5. To record current directions and speed with time. 6. To observe and record nepheloid layers, acoustic scattering and other organisms in the water column, and other water column parameters.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Authority Dock, Charleston, SC

End Port/Location: Maritime Authority Dock, Morehead City, NC

Start Date: 1990-07-02

End Date: 1990-07-06

Equipment Used: ROV, Loran-C, Gyro compass

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Data acquired: 9 video tapes taken with the external camera; 9 video tapes taken with the internal camera; 3 rolls of 36-exposure slides; pictures taken with external Benthos camera; 12 rock samples; 38 sand samples.

Staff: Frank T. Manheim, Peter Popenoe

Affiliate Staff:
Vernon J. Henry - Georgia State U.
John B. Wilson - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
Paul Huddlestun - Georgia Geological Survey
Robert Woolsey - U. of Miss. Mineral Resource Inst.
Mark Evans - Emory University
Fisal Idris - Skidaway Institute
Clark Alexander - Skidaway Institute
Andrew Shepard - NOAA/NURP

Notes: Project = EEZ Inventory, EEZ Inventory

Location:

Blake Plateau, east of Charleston, South Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 33 South: 32 West: -79.5 East: -78

Platform(s):


Delta
photo of John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell

Publications

Popenoe, P., and Manheim, F.T., 2001, Origin and history of the Charleston Bump--geological formations, currents, bottom conditions, and their relationship to Wreckfish habitats on the Blake Plateau, in Sedberry, G.R., ed., Island in the Stream--Oceanography and Fisheries of the Charleston Bump: American Fisheries Society Symposium, v. 25.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, daily cruise narrative, dive locations and information, trackmap, sample seismic profiles, dive and photo logs.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ROV --- Photo
Video
Biology
Geology
1990-014-FA-SC-001 (SUBMERSIBLE SAMPLE samples)
Loran-C --- Navigation
1990-014-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 90014)
Gyro compass --- Navigation

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