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Field Activity Details for field activity C283NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: C-2-83-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Field

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Crescent City, CA and Crescent City, CA

End Port/Location: Crescent City, CA and Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1983-09-27

End Date: 1983-10-01

Equipment Used: uniboom, 12khz, rangerange, LoranC, transitsatellite, vibratingcore, navigation, sidescansonar

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Barb Blubaugh, Charlaine Daniel, Monty Hampton, Carol Hirozawa, Kris Johnson, Robert Kayen, Keith Kvenvolden, Gary Mann, Jim Nicholson, Kevin O'Toole, Michael Torresan, Hal Williams

Affiliate Staff:
Bill Kahle - Chief Engineer
Bill Lambie - Ship Captain
Marge Golan (Geochemist) - Bac
Paul Haley - Chief Mate
Peter Roy - Geologist

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Barb Blubaugh (USGS) - Navigator
Bill Kahle - Chief Engineer
Bill Lambie - Ship Captain
Carol Hirozawa (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Charlaine Daniel - Navigator
Gary Mann (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Hal Williams (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Jim Nicholson (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Keith Kvenvolden (USGS Western Region) - Geochemist
Kevin O'Toole (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Kris Johnson (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Marge Golan (Geochemist) - Bac
Mike Field (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Mike Torresan (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Monty Hampton (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Paul Haley - Chief Mate
Peter Roy - Geologist
Rob Kayen (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 41.70014 South: 41.38467 West: -124.323 East: -124.13747

Platform(s):

photo of Paul Langevin III
Paul Langevin III

Publications

Field, M.E., and Kvenvolden, Keith A, 1985, Gas hydrates beneath continental slope off Northern California, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists annual convention with divisions Society For Sedimentary Geology/EMD/DPA: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 69 no. 2, pp. 255–255.

Warnke, D.A., Field, Michael E., and Kvenvolden, Keith A, 1986, Gas hydrates on the Northern California continental margin; discussion and reply [modified]: Geology,, v. 14 no. 6, pp. 536–538.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
uniboom --- Boomer
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data c-2-83-nc.410_051 (Provisional best file)
hires_uniboom survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
12khz survey information
12kHz bathymetry paper rolls (analog holdings)
rangerange --- Navigation
delnortenav_rangerange
LoranC --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
transitsatellite
vibratingcore --- Geology
35mm microfilm; vibracores (analog holdings)
C-2-83-NC_154032_vibracore_photo (scanned microfilm)
vibracores (analog holdings; working and archive halves)
navigation --- Navigation
C-2-83-NC_197726_nav_printout (scanned microfilm)
start_end_lines
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/imag1/c/c283nc/imag/c-2-83-nc.onoff.sidescansonar (start and end of paper rolls)

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