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Field Activity Details for field activity BP71AR

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AKA: none

Other ID: B-P-71-AR,71GSGM

Status: Completed

Organization(s): British Petroleum

Funding Program(s):

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Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jonathan Childs

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

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Start Date: 1971-01-01

End Date: 1971-02-14

Equipment Used: airgunarcer, integratednavigation, airgun

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Notes: only info is 'airgun'; assume data is airgunarcer
Line names: GM- lines source of processed data loaded to, and copied from, Landmark: SeisScan Geodata SEG-Y data for GM-4D, 5D, 5S, 6S, 7D, 10D, 20D, 20S, 25S, 27S, 28S, 29S, 30S loaded from processed data tapes are GM -6D, 8D, 9D, 9S, 10S, 11S, 12D, 12S, 13D, 13S, 15D, 15S, 16D, 16S, 17D, 17S, 18D , 18S, 19D, 19S, 21D, 21S, 22D, 22S, 23D, 23S, 24D, 24S, 26S Tape data available: processed data tapes for GM-4D, 5D, 5S, 6D, 6S, 7D, 8D, 9D, 9S, 10D, 10S, 11S, 12D, 12S, 13D, 13S, 15D, 15S, 16D, 16S, 17D, 17S, 18D, 18S, 19D, 19S, 20D, 20S, 21D, 21S, 22D, 22S, 23D, 23S, 24D, 24S, 25S, 26S, 27S, 28S, 29S, 30S field data tapes for all lines Reproducible media available: mylar films for GM-4D, 5D, 5S, 6D, 6S, 7D, 8D, 9D, 9S, 10D, 10S, 11S, 12D, 12S, 13D, 13S, 15D, 15S, 16D, 16S, 17D, 17S, 18D, 18S, 19D, 19S, 20D, 20S, 20SD, 21D, 21S, 22D, 22S, 23D, 23S, 23SD, 24D, 24S, 25S, 26S, 27S, 28S, 29S, 30S Cartography file available: 71gsgm.utm6 Note: line GM-8S is present in the carto file but no field tape, processed tape or mylar exists for the line (probably never shot or was bad data)

Location:

Harrison Bay to Prudhoe Bay

Boundaries
North: 71.0028 South: 70.38999 West: -152.345 East: -147.85943

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Portals/Viewers

FAN BP71AR 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=BP71AR.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgunarcer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
seismic (data on FAD)
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data (Provisional best file)
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
B-P-71-AR (National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS) data )
420_051 (Metadata)
Edited seismic shot point data (Provisional best file)
NAMSS Air gun data

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