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Field Activity Details for field activity 1990-301-FA

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Other ID: 90KI1, 90KI2, 91KI2

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): Arnell Forde

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To investigate the shallow geologic framework of the Mississippi-Alabama-Florida shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico, from Mississippi Sound to the Florida Panhandle.

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St.Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 1990-06-21

End Date: 1991-07-27

Equipment Used: Other, Other

Information to be Derived: Work was conducted as part of a project to study coastal erosion and offshore sand resources.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Scanned images (.tif) of analog seismic profiles, navigation and GIS files.

Staff: Jordan Sanford, Dana Wiese

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: The new field activity IDs 90KI1, 90KI2, and 91KI2 were originally referred to as Kit Jones 90-1, Kit Jones 90-2, and Kit Jones 91-2 at the USGS in St. Petersburg, FL, and 90013 and 91020 at the USGS in Woods Hole, MA.

Location:

Mississippi-Alabama-Florida

Boundaries
North: 30.3662104 South: 29.26844715 West: -89.25842285 East: -86.33190918

Platform(s):

photo of Kit Jones
Kit Jones

Publications

Bosse, S.T., Flocks, J.G., Forde, A.S., 2018, Archive of digitized analog boomer and minisparker seismic reflection data collected from the Northern Gulf of Mexico: 1981, 1990, and 1991: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CN730G.

Sanford, J.M., Harrison, A.S., Wiese, D., Flocks, J.G., 2009, Archive of digitized analog boomer seismic reflection data collected from the Mississippi-Alabama shelf onboard the R/V Kit Jones, June 1990 and July 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 429, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds429.

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