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Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-638-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Pending

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): Jenna Hill, Janet Watt

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Alicia Balster-gee

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sediment cores for marine geohazard studies

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Ford 650 Box truck - White G71-03559

Start Port/Location: Astoria, OR

End Port/Location: Astoria, OR

Start Date: 2023-07-14

End Date: 2023-07-21

Equipment Used: pistoncore, 0.5-16 kHz, 0.5-16 kHz receiver

Information to be Derived: Sediment age, character and distribution; earthquake recurrence; fault characterization

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jenna Hill, Rachel Marcuson, Daniel Powers, Peter Dal Ferro, Janet Watt

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-643-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2022-653-FA.

Location:

Oregon, Washington, United States, Pacific Ocean

Boundaries
North: 47.9628786 South: 40.2854841 West: -125.82349777 East: -124.07787323

Platform(s):

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Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
pistoncore --- Geology
0.5-16 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
0.5-16 kHz receiver --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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