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Field Activity Details for field activity 1992-012-FA

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Other ID: GS-1 6-92; LEGS 1-6-92

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Ronald C. Circe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Jonathan "Nate" Fuller - Ohio Geological Survey

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geophysics.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Ashtabula Harbor, OH

End Port/Location: Cleveland, OH

Start Date: 1992-06-15

End Date: 1992-06-29

Equipment Used: Loran-C, Sidescan sonar, 3.5 kHz

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Nichols, Robert N. Oldale, Ronald C. Circe

Affiliate Staff:
Jonathan Fuller - OGS; Scudder Mackey - OGS
Tom Berg - OGS
Sally Prouty - ODNR
Don Guy - OGS
Danielle Foye - OGS
Dennis Evans - ODNR
Helen Delano - Penn State GS

Notes: Weather remains a critical factor.

Location:

Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, Lake Erie, Great Lakes, United States, North America;

Boundaries
North: 42.27054 South: 41.51097 West: -83.3045 East: -80.52439

Platform(s):

photo of GS-1
GS-1

Publications

Foster, D.S., Folger, D.W., Circé, R.C., Fuller, J.A., 1995, Maps and sidescan sonar images showing interpretation of acoustic backscatter overlain on historically mapped bottom sediments of the Ohio part of Lake Erie: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-525, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr95252.

Fuller, J.A., Circe, R.C., and Oldale, R.N., 1995, The geologic framework of the Ohio area of Lake Erie: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-220, 23 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr95220.

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, visitors, tabulated information indicating weather days.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Loran-C --- Navigation
1992-012-FA-LN-001-01 (Trackmap with line numbers for Field Activities 91028, 92012, 92022, 93008, and 93017.)
1992-012-FA-LN-002-01 (Raw navigation data)
Sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
1992-012-FA-SO-001 (microfilm of )
Sidescan Paper records (Paper records of sidescan sonar data collection.)
1992-012-FA-SO-002 (Digital tape(s) of SSS LINE 1-8, SSS LINE 9-14, SSS LINE 14-15, SSS LINE 15-21, SSS LINE 22-24, SSS LINE 17,9,19, )
3.5 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
1992-012-FA-SE-001 (Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines )
1992-012-FA-SE-002 (VHS digital tapes for line(s) 1-2, 2-4, 5-6, 7-9, 9, 9-10, 10-11, 11-13, 13-14, 14, 14-15, 15-16, 16-17, 17-18, 18-20, 20-21, 21, 21-22, 23, 24, )
1992-012-FA-SE-003 (microfilm of )

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