AKA: GO SARS 2019 Lokis and NPD
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): Other
Funding Program(s): Pacific EEZ Minerals (ZP00AZ9)
Principal Investigator(s): Amy Gartman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Eoghan Reeves; John W. Jamieson
Information Specialist(s): Amy Gartman
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sediment geochemistry of hydrothermal and pelagic sediments
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Tromso, Norway
End Port/Location: Tromso, Norway
Start Date: 2019-06-18
End Date: 2019-07-04
Equipment Used: Push corer, Other
Information to be Derived: CT scan, XRF, XRD, TOC/TIC
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 14 push cores collected from NPD 72.75N (5 cores, 2 bags) and Loki's Castle (7 cores, 3 w/ core catchers)
Staff: Amy Gartman
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: This cruise follows Field Activity 2018-691-DD; however Amy Gartman will attend field work this year and collect samples, as opposed to 2018-691-DD, which had no USGS attendees and just donated samples. However location and sampling plan are the same.
Location:
Arctic Mid Atlantic Ridge
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 73.5678 | South: 73.5668 | West: 8.1661 | East: 8.1611 |
Platform(s):
Aegir 6000 | G.O. Sars |
Gartman, A., Au, M.V., and Payan, D., 2024, Computed tomography (CT) scans, photographs, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scans, geochemistry, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and gamma-ray bulk density data of push cores from Loki's Castle and Favne vent fields, Mohns Ridge: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96D02FG.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push corer | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Surveys (biological) Biology Geology | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
