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Field Activity Details for field activity A288NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: A-2-88-NC,Dive_2042

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John Edmond

Affiliate Investigator(s): Fred Grassle

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1988-06-02

End Date: 1988-06-13

Equipment Used: Sonatracktransducer, bathymetry, pinger, GPS, bottomtransponder, submersible

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Andy Campbell, John Edmond, Randy Koski, Stephanie Ross, Pat Shanks, Rob Zierenberg

Affiliate Staff:
John Slack - USGS
Chuck Heywood - USGS
Martin Palmer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Germanr - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rob Sherrell - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cindy Van Dover - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Fred Grassle - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Bruce Taylor - Geological Society of Canada
Andy Magenheim - Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Yoshitaka Gamo - University of Tokyo
William Sangray - Cornell

Notes: Alvin dives #s 2033 - 2042
added ALV2093 and ALV2094 since no FACS ID existed for these Dave Kadko samples from Alvin.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Rob Zierenberg - USGS Western Region
Stephanie Ross - USGS Western Region
Randy Koski - USGS Western Region
Wayne C. Shanks III - USGS
John Slack - USGS
Chuck Heywood - USGS
John Edmond - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andy Campbell - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin Palmer - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Germanr - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rob Sherrell - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cindy Van Dover - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Fred Grassle - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Bruce Taylor - Geological Society of Canada
Andy Magenheim - Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Yoshitaka Gamo - University of Tokyo
William Sangray - Cornell

Location:

Escanaba Trough

Boundaries
North: 41.1 South: 40.96667 West: -127.517 East: -127.45

Platform(s):

photo of Alvin
Alvin
photo of Atlantis II
Atlantis II

Publications

Bohlke, J.K., and Shanks, W.C., III,, 1994, Stable isotope study of hydrothermal vents at Escanaba Trough; observed and calculated effects of sediment-seawater interaction, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 223–239.

Davis, A.S., Clague, D.A., and Friesen, W.B., 1994, Petrology and mineral chemistry of basalt from Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 153–170.

Denlinger, R.P., and Holmes, Mark L., 1994, A thermal and mechanical model for sediment hills and associated sulfide deposits along Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds. Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 65–75.

Grassle, J.F., and Petrecca, Rosemarie F., 1994, Soft-sediment hydrothermal vent communities of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 327–335.

Karlin, R.E., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Sedimentation and neotectonism in the SESCA area, Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 131–141.

Koski, R.A., Benninger, L.M., Zierenberg, R.A., and Jonasson, I.R., 1994, Composition and growth history of hydrothermal deposits in Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge: In: Morton, J.L., Zierenberg, R.A., and Reiss, C.A. (Eds.). U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022(Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California), pp. 293–324, https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b2022.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Rapp, John B., and Hostettler, Frances D, 1994, Hydrocarbons in sediment from Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 279–292.

Magenheim, A.J., and Gieskes, Joris M., 1994, Evidence for hydrothermal fluid flow through surficial sediments, Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 241–255.

Morton, J.L., Zierenberg, R. A., and Reiss, C. A., 1994, Eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2202, 359 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b2022.

Morton, J.L., and Fox, Christopher G., 1994, Structural setting and interaction of volcanism and sedimentation at Escanaba Trough; geophysical results, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 21–43.

Normark, W.R., Gutmacher, C.E., Zierenberg, R.A., Wong, F.L., and Rosenbauer, R.J., 1994, Sediment fill of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 91–129.

Quinterno, P.J., 1994, Quaternary foraminifers from Escanaba Trough, Northeast Pacific Ocean, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 337–359.

Reiss, C.A., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Preliminary Report of the 1988 A2-88-NC Gorda Ridge Cruise: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-711, 109 p.

Ross, S.L., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Volcanic geomorphology of the SESCA and NESCA sites, Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 143–151.

Zierenberg, R.A., and Shanks, Wayne C., II, 1994, Sediment alteration associated with massive sulfide formation in Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge; the importance of seawater mixing and magnesium metasomatism, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 257–277.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Sonatracktransducer --- Single Beam
bathymetry --- Single Beam
pinger --- Transects
GPS --- Navigation
bottomtransponder --- Transects
submersible --- Photo
Video
Biology
Geology
ALV 2033-2041 (data at warehouse)
ALV 2093-2094 (massive sulfide samples)

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