Field Activity Details for field activity 97KEY01

Other ID: C-1-97-FL

Status: Completed

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

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Principal Investigator(s): Barbara Lidz

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Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Boomer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To fill a major gap in seismic data in a 20-year study of the reef track.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Crandon Park Marina on Key Biscayne

End Port/Location: Crandon Park Marina on Key Biscayne

Start Date: 1997-10-12

End Date: 1997-11-02

Equipment Used: GPS , ITI ST-5 streamer, Hydraulic Coring Drill, Push Corer, Applied Acoustics CSP 300

Information to be Derived: Geophysical data are being used to determine depth to the Pleistocene bedrock surface and Holocene sediment distribution and thickness, and to locate sample sites.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 52 single-channel boomer seismic lines ( > 300 line kilometers of profiles ) along With 4 sediment cores, one push core and water samples from wells.

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Notes: Wells sampled are associated with Gene Shinn's Ecosystem and Restoration
Management, ERM, project in the Florida keys region

Location:

Just north of Molasses Reef off north Key Largo (Upper Keys) to east boundary of Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary (Lower Keys), Florida

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Portals/Viewers

FAN 97KEY01 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=97KEY01.

Data Acquired