Other ID: RB09-02; B-4-09-NA
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Uri Ten Brink
Affiliate Investigator(s): NOAA-PMEL
Information Specialist(s): William Danforth
Data Type(s): Sonar: Multibeam, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Environmental Data: Temperature
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map with multibeam sonar the upper continental slope.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Charleston, SC
End Port/Location: Charleston, SC
Start Date: 2009-05-11
End Date: 2009-05-25
Equipment Used: SeaBeam 2112, Bathy2100, DGPS, XBT
Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 5700 line km of multibeam bathymetry and associated chirp sub-bottom seismic profiling.
Staff: William Danforth, Elizabeth Pendleton, Uri Ten Brink, David Twichell
Affiliate Staff:
LTJG Lindsey Waller
NOAA-PMEL; Leslie Sauter
Brian Kennedy
Shanon Hoy
Emily Allen
Will Sauter - College of Charleston
Notes:
Project = Potential Tsunami Sources, Potential Tsunami Sources
Location:
New England, New York and New Jersey continental slope, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 41.5 | South: 34.25 | West: -76 | East: -64.5 |
Platform(s):
Ronald H. Brown |
Andrews, B.D., Chaytor, J.D., ten Brink, U.S., Brothers, D.S., Gardner, J.V., Lobecker, E.A., and Calder, B.R., 2013, Bathymetric terrain model of the Atlantic margin for marine geological investigations (ver. 2.0, May 2016): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1266, 19 p., 1 pl., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121266.
Chaytor, J.D., Twichell, D.C., and ten Brink, U. S., 2012, A reevaluation of the Munson-Nygren-Retriever Submarine Landslide Complex, Georges Bank Lower Slope, Western North Atlantic: In: Y. Yamada et al (Ed.), Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences Book. Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_12,.
Chaytor, J.D., ten Brink, U.S., Baxter, C.D., Brothers, D.S., and Twichell, D.C, 2012, Submarine Landslides on the Slope and Rise, Southern New England Continental Margin, USA [abs.]: , 34th International Geological Congress. Brisbane, Australia, August 5-10, 2012.
Chaytor, J.D., ten Brink, U.S., Twichell, D.C., Baxter, C.D.P., Hallam, T.D., Brother, D., 2011, Submarine Landslides along the U.S. Atlantic Margin: Their Distribution, Failure Processes and Age [abs.]: , 2011 Fall AGU Meeting. December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA.
ten Brink, U.S., Lee, Homa J., Geist, Eric L., and Twichell, David C., 2009, Assessment of tsunami hazard to the U.S. East Coast using relationships between submarine landslides and earthquakes: Marine Geology, v. 264 no. 1-2, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.05.011.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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SeaBeam 2112 | --- | Multibeam | |
Bathy2100 | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
XBT | --- | Temperature |