AKA: NEHRP - Geological Survey of Canada QCF cruise
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): Other
Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)
Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Coble, James Conrad
Affiliate Investigator(s): H. Gary Greene (Sitka Sound Science Center) J. Vaughn Barrie (Geological Survey of Canada)
Information Specialist(s): Katherine Coble, James Conrad
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Neotectonics investigation of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
End Port/Location: Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Start Date: 2015-09-15
End Date: 2015-09-27
Equipment Used: navigation, grab sampler, pistoncore, 3.5khz, Knudsen Chirp 3200
Information to be Derived: To image fault offsets and collect samples to determine reflection ages
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Benthos piston cores (30) and 0.75 cu m IKU grab samples (5), >900 line km Knudson low power 12 element 3.5 kHz chirp subbottom profiles, as well as 12 and 18 kHz echosounder data, and underwater camera transects (3) along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System offshore British Columbia and Alaska
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: R/V John P. Tully. Data and samples will be archived at the Geological Survey of Canada. Adaberen nav software.
Location:
SE Alaska and NW Canada, Pacific Ocean
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 58.82208457 | South: 47.89892882 | West: -137.681 | East: -122.17122396 |
Platform(s):
 John P Tully |
McGann, M., Enkin, R.J., Hamilton, T.S., Barrie, J.V., Brothers, D.S., Greene, H.G., Maier, K.L., Conrad, J.E., Lauer, R.M., East, A.E., Conway, K.W., Neelands, P.J., and Marcuson, R.K., 2024, Radiocarbon age dating of biological material from cores collected off British Columbia, Canada and southeastern Alaska, U.S. along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault zone: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96QMQJT.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| navigation | --- | Navigation | |
| grab sampler | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Geology | |
| pistoncore | --- | Geology | |
| 3.5khz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
| Knudsen Chirp 3200 | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler |
