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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-615-FA

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AKA: Great Salt Lake Paleoseismology

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS, Earthquake Hazards

Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)

Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Brothers

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

Information Specialist(s): Alicia Balster-gee

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Examine paleoseismic evidence in the Great Salt Lake along Great Salt Lake Fault

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

Start Port/Location: Salt Lake City, UT

End Port/Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Start Date: 2021-06-19

End Date: 2021-07-02

Equipment Used: multichannel , Mini sparker, 0.5-16 kHz receiver, 0.5-16 kHz, core

Information to be Derived: seismic stratigraphy, core samples, dating, grain size

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 38 cores and 63 chirp profiles.

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Location:

Great Salt Lake, Utah

Boundaries
North: 41.85051126 South: 40.33869384 West: -113.49859715 East: -111.75095558

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

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Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

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

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