AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)
Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Coble
Affiliate Investigator(s): David W. Caress, Chief Scientist, MBARI
Information Specialist(s): Katherine Coble
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect high-resolution geophysical data needed to map and characterize deformation, if any, related to the San Gregorio Fault where the fault has been interpreted to intersect northern Monterey Canyon.
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA
End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA
Start Date: 2014-03-24
End Date: 2014-03-27
Equipment Used: navigation, GPS, 512 chirp-source, subbottomprofiler, multibeam, sidescansonar
Information to be Derived: high-resolution multibeam bathymetry, chirp sub-bottom profiles, and sidescan sonar to map and characterize deformation in Monterey Canyon related to recent movement along the San Gregorio Fault
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: USGS will NOT be the permanent repository of data. Successfully collected chirp subbottom profiles and multibeam bathymetry on one additional AUV dive.
Staff: Katherine Coble
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: This data acquisition field activity is funded by and in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). One research scientist, Katherine L. Maier (Coble), has been invited onto the acquisition cruise, will participate in data processing, and will lead data interpretations. No additional staff or overtime are needed. The mapping AUV, including multibeam bathymetry, chirp, and sidescan sonars, ship (R/V Rachel Carson), crew, and additional science and engineering personnel will be provided by MBARI.
Location:
Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean
Boundaries | |||
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North: 36.94982319 | South: 36.53739627 | West: -122.447 | East: -121.75336032 |
Platform(s):
Rachel Carson (MBARI) |
Maier, K.L., Paull, C.K., Brothers, D.S., Caress, D.W., McGann, M., Lundsten, E.M., Anderson, K., and Gwiazda, R., 2017, Investigation of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Activity in the San Gregorio Fault Zone on the Continental Slope North of Monterey Canyon, Offshore Central California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 107 no. 3, pp. 1094–1106, URL: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70190048.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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navigation | --- | Navigation | |
GPS | --- | Navigation | |
512 chirp-source | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
subbottomprofiler | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
multibeam | --- | Multibeam | |
sidescansonar | --- | Sidescan |