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Field Activity Details for field activity D380WG

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AKA: none

Other ID: D-3-80-WG,DC3-80-WG

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Monty Hampton

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Michael Torresan

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Yakutat, AK

End Port/Location: Kodiak, AK

Start Date: 1980-06-22

End Date: 1980-06-29

Equipment Used: airgun, minisparker, 12khz, 3.5khz, sidescansonar, penetrometer, transitsatellite, VanVeengrab, gravitycore

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Monty Hampton (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Western Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 58.93 South: 56.06167 West: -154.815 East: -148.64166

Platform(s):

photo of Discoverer
Discoverer

Publications

Fisher, M.A., von Huene, Roland, and Hampton, Monty A.,, 1984, Summary geologic report for petroleum lease sale 100, Kodiak Shelf, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-0024, 49 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr8424.

Hampton, M.A., 1993, Comparison of tectonic and stratigraphic control of submarine landslides on the Kodiak upper continental slope, Alaska, in Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., Twichell, D.C., eds., Submarine landslides; selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2002, pp. 117–122.

Hampton, M.A., 1983, Geology of the Kodiak Shelf, Alaska; environmental considerations for resource development: Continental Shelf Research, v. 1 no. 3, pp. 253–281.

Hampton, M.A., 1983, Geotechnical Framework Study of Shelikof Strait, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-200, http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/data/0699/06995004/usgs_ofr83-200_06995004.pdf.

Hampton, M.A., 1983, Geotechnical framework study of the Kodiak Shelf, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-0171, 87 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr83171.

Hampton, M.A.,, 1981, Grain Size and Composition of Seafloor Sediment, Kodiak Shelf, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-659, http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/data/0605/06055002/usgs_ofr81-659_06055002.pdf.

Hampton, M.A.,, 1982, Synthesis report; environmental geology of Kodiak Shelf, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-0059, 76 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr8259.

Hampton, M.A., Johnson, K.H., Torresan, M.E., and Winters, W.J., 1981, Description of seafloor sediment and preliminary geo-environmental report, Shelikof Strait, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-1133, 87 p.

Hampton, M.A., 1985, Quaternary sedimentation in Shelikof Strait, Alaska: Marine Geology, v. 62 no. 3-4, pp. 213–253.

Hampton, M.A., 1982, Shelikof Strait environmental geology, in Bruns, T. R., ed., Hydrocarbon resource report for proposed OCS lease sale 88; southeastern Alaska, northern Gulf of Alaska, Cook Inlet, and Shelikof Strait, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-0928, pp. 106–114.

Hampton, M.A., and Kvenvolden, Keith A., 1981, Geology and geochemistry of gas-charged sediment on Kodiak Shelf, Alaska: Geo-Marine Letter, v. 1 no. 2, pp. 141–147.

Kennett, J.P., Houtz, R.E., Andrews, P.B., Edwards, A.R., Gostin, V.A.,, H., M., Hampton, M., Jenkins, D.G., Margolis, S.V., Ovenshine, A.T., and Perch-Nielsen, K., 1973, Pleistocene-Pliocene biostratigraphy, paleoclimatology and productivity; South Pacific deep-sea drilling, subantarctic to tropics, in Ninth congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research; abstracts: Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, no. 9, pp. 184–185.

Torresan, M.E., 1984, Fabric and its relation to sedimentological and geotechnical properties of near-surface sediment in Shelikof Strait, Alaska: San Jose, CA, San Jose State University Masters Thesis.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
single channel start end paper rolls
minisparker --- Sparker
start end paper rolls
12khz --- Single Beam
start and end paper rolls
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
start and end paper rolls
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
start end paper roll
penetrometer --- Geology
sample information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data d-3-80-wg.052 (Provisional best file)
navigation information
VanVeengrab --- Geology
gravitycore --- Geology

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