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Field Activity Details for field activity A170SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: A-1-70-SC,SCCAB

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Southern California Continental Borderland (MU270)

Principal Investigator(s): Bill Normark

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Data Type(s): Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

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Start Date: 1970-06-25

End Date: 1970-07-02

Equipment Used: airgun

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Bill Normark (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 34.75 South: 32.25 West: -122.75 East: -116.75

Platform(s):


Alex. Agassiz

Publications

Bowen, A.J., Normark, William R., and Piper, David J. W., 1984, Modelling of turbidity currents on Navy submarine fan, California continental borderland: Sedimentology,, v. 31 no. 2, pp. 169–185.

Normark, W.R., 1974, Submarine canyons and fan valleys; factors affecting growth patterns of deep-sea fans, Modern and Ancient Geosynclinal Sedimentation; Submarine canyon and fan deposits: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, v. 19, pp. 56–68.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1984, Navy Fan, California borderland; growth pattern and depositional processes: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3 no. 2-4, pp. 101–108.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1972, Sediments and growth pattern of Navy Deep-Sea Fan, San Clemente Basin, California borderland: Journal of Geology, v. 80 no. 2, pp. 198–223.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1972, Sediments and growth pattern of Navy deep-sea fan, San Clemente Basin, California borderland: San Diego, University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, v. 42, part 2, no. 80, Contributions, pp. 1094–1119.

Piper, D.J.W., and Normark, William R., 1983, Turbidite depositional patterns and flow characteristics, Navy submarine fan, California Borderland: Sedimentology, v. 30 no. 5, pp. 681–694.

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Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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