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Field Activity Details for field activity 97GFP01

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Other ID: G-2-97-LA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jack Kindinger

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Lake Pontchartrain Geologic Framework and Coastal Processes study was to analyze environmental change focusing on evaluating environmental conditions, sediment quality, coastal processes and geomorphology.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: New Orleans

End Port/Location: New Orleans

Start Date: 1997-07-13

End Date: 1997-08-11

Equipment Used: GPS , Vibracorer, Chirp 424

Information to be Derived: Vibracores used to derive high-resolution sedimentation patterns post Pleistocene geologic framework. Seismic used to characterize near surface geology, as it relates to sediment inventory.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: A total of 104 miles of seismic data and 29 vibracores were collected for 97GFP01. Bathymetry data were collected from July 26 - Aug 3 and Boomer data (17 lines) were collected from August 7 - 11.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: These FACS logs were generated by Chandra Dreher in June of 2003,
using the handwritten logbooks and personal accounts of the scientist and
crewmembers. Noted were some Nav equipment problems, which LORAN was used for
Nav during the Seismic survey.


Samples PON96 stored at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA,
contact Phil McCarty pmccarty@uno.edu.


These data can be accessed using the Louisiana Sedimentary and Environmental Dat
abase Internet Map Server (LASED IMS) located on line at:
http://coastal.er.usgs.go
v/lased/

Location:

ake Pontchartrain, Louisiana (Vibracoring Tchefuncta River, South, Louisiana th Street Canal, LA and Seismic survey cont. of Middle grounds heading, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 30.43768507 South: 29.81255345 West: -90.1377368 East: -89.19812679

Platform(s):

photo of G.K. Gilbert
G.K. Gilbert

Publications

Calderon, K., Dadisman, S.V., Kindinger, J.L., Williams, S.J., Flocks, J.G., Penland, S., Wiese, D.S., 2003, Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS Cruises 94GFP01, 95GFP01, 96GFP01, 97GFP01, and 98GFP02 in Lakes Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Maurepas, Louisiana, 1994-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-497, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2003497.

Flocks, J.G., 1999, New field sampling techniques and data description: In: Manheim, F.T., Hayes, L. (Eds.). Lake Pontchartrain Basin: Bottom sediments and related environmental resources, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1634, Woods Hole, MA, online only p., URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1634/.

Manheim, F.T., 1998, Lake Pontchartrain Basin, bottom sediments and regional scientific and educational resources: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-805, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98805.

Manheim, F.T., Hayes, L., 2002, Lake Pontchartrain Basin: bottom sediments and related environmental resources: U.S. Geological Survey , Reston, VA, https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1634.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 97GFP01 has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=97GFP01.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
500-Shot Interval Navigation
Edited Shotpoint Navigation
Vibracorer --- Geology
Core descriptions
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data

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