AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)
Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Brothers
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): James Conrad, Ray Sliter
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
Scientific Purpose/Goals: low-energy, high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection survey offshore southern California to assess the earthquake and submarine landslide hazards
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: San Diego, California
End Port/Location: San Diego, California
Start Date: 2014-11-12
End Date: 2014-11-25
Equipment Used: navigation, Other, Sparker, multichannel, 512 chirp
Information to be Derived: seismic stratigraphy, fault/basin structure, tectonic deformation
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: raw data Sproul_2014 on FAD
Staff: Jackson Currie, Robert Wyland
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Cruise will be aboard the R/V Robert Gordon Sproul using 48-ch MCS streamer, SC single channel 500 joule acoustic sparker from Woods Hole and and 512 chirp from PCMG.
Chuck Worley of WHSC will also participating
Location:
Southern California Borderlands
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 34.22542902 | South: 32.75509185 | West: -120.443 | East: -117.26803153 |
Platform(s):
 Robert Gordon Sproul |
Balster-Gee, A.F., Kluesner, J.W., Brothers, D.S., Conrad, J.E., and Sliter, R.W., 2017, Minisparker and chirp seismic-reflection data of field activity 2014-645-FA; offshore Santa Barbara, southern California from 2014-11-12 to 2014-11-25 (ver. 2.0, March 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CV4FW6.
Conrad, J.E., Prouty, N.G., Walton, M.A.L., Kluesner, J.W., Maier, K.L., McGann, M., Brothers, D.S., Roland, E.C., and Dartnell, P., 2018, Seafloor fluid seeps on Kimki Ridge, offshore southern California: Links to active strike-slip faulting: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Special Issue 'Results of Telepresence-Enabled Oceanographic Exploration', v. 150, pp. 82–91, URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.11.001.
Kluesner, J., Brothers, D., Hart, P., Miller, N., and Hatcher, G., 2019, Practical approaches to maximizing the resolution of sparker seismic reflection data: Marine Geophysical Research, v. 40 no. 3, pp. 279–301, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-018-9367-2.
Walton, M.A.L., Brothers, D.S., Conrad, J.E., Maier, K.L., Roland, E.C., Kluesner, J.W., and Dartnell, P., 2020, Morphology, structure, and kinematics of the San Clemente and Catalina faults based on high-resolution marine geophysical data, southern California Inner Continental Borderland (USA): Geosphere, , URL: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02187.1.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| navigation | --- | Navigation | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Sparker | --- | Sparker | |
| multichannel | --- | Multichannel | |
| 512 chirp | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler |
