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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-645-FA

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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): Jared Kluesner

Affiliate Investigator(s): Daniel Brothers

Information Specialist(s): Jared Kluesner

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Investigate shallow faulting and submarine landslides along the western Santa Barbara Channel.

Vehicle(s): Mitsubishi Outlander G61-0912R

Start Port/Location: Santa Barbara, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Start Date: 2018-07-09

End Date: 2018-07-18

Equipment Used: 512 chirp, Yonav, 512 chirp-source, Other, Mini sparker, minisparker

Information to be Derived: Sub-bottom information about faulting and slope stability.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: CHIRP and MCS_minisparker added to FAD 8/24/2018

Staff: Timothy Elfers, Gerry Hatcher, Rachel Marcuson, Daniel Powers

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Elfers and Hatcher only for truck driving, not at sea

Location:

Santa Barbara Channel, CA

Boundaries
North: 34.44965989 South: 34.17035646 West: -120.37987055 East: -119.87584223

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Balster-Gee, A.F., Kluesner, J.W., and Brothers, D.S., 2020, Multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection and chirp sub-bottom data of USGS field activity 2018-645-FA collected in the Santa Barbara Channel in July of 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93M68CN.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
512 chirp --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp sub-bottom data collected in the Santa Barbara Channel in July of 2018 (High-resolution chirp sub-bottom data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in July of 2018 between Point Conception and Coal Oil Point in the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Data were collected aboard the USGS R/V Parke Snavely during field activity 2018-645-FA, using an EdgeTech SB-512i sub-bottom profiler. Sub-bottom acoustic penetration spans several tens of meters and is variable by location.)
Yonav --- Navigation
512 chirp-source --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Other --- --- ---
Mini sparker --- Sparker
minisparker --- Sparker
Multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection data collected in the Santa Barbara Channel in July of 2018 (High-resolution multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in July of 2018 between Point Conception and Coal Oil Point in the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Data were collected aboard the USGS R/V Parke Snavely during field activity 2018-645-FA, using SIG 2-mille minisparker and recorded using an 8-channel Geometrics digital hydrophone streamer. Sub-bottom acoustic penetration spans several hundreds of meters and is variable by location.)

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