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Field Activity Details for field activity 2020-617-FA

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AKA: Great Salt Lake Paleoseismology

Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

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): Daniel Brothers, Jared Kluesner, Janet Watt

Affiliate Investigator(s): Chris DuRoss, Ryan Gold, Rich Briggs

Information Specialist(s): Alicia Balster-gee

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Lacustrine paleoseismic investigation of the Great Salt Lake Fault Zone; collaboration with EHP office in Golden, CO

Vehicle(s): Grand Caravan G41-3720L, MarFac; Ford 650 Box truck - White G71-03559, MarFac; Mac Semi G82-0099N

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Start Date: 2020-06-02

End Date: 2020-06-16

Equipment Used: core, multichannel source, Multichannel, 0.5-16 kHz, 0.5-16 kHz receiver, Mini sparker, 48-channel streamer

Information to be Derived: recurrence of prehistoric earthquakes

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Cancelled due to COVID-19

Staff: Peter Dal Ferro, Gerry Hatcher, Daniel Powers

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Great Salt Lake

Boundaries
North: 41.82096681 South: 40.437312 West: -113.38796139 East: -111.78198338

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
core --- Biology
Geology
multichannel source --- Multichannel
Multichannel --- Multichannel
0.5-16 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
0.5-16 kHz receiver --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Mini sparker --- Sparker
48-channel streamer --- Sparker

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