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Field Activity Details for field activity D481NS

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AKA: none

Other ID: D-4-81-NS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Monty Hampton

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK

End Port/Location: Nome, AK

Start Date: 1981-08-07

End Date: 1981-08-18

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, minisparker, gravitycore, penetrometer, LoranC, transitsatellite, Alpinecore, VanVeengrab, vibratingcore, bathymetry

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

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

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 65.14617 South: 62.95967 West: -167.741 East: -161.58099

Platform(s):

photo of Discoverer
Discoverer

Publications

Hampton, M.A., and Winters, W.J., 1983, Geotechnical framework study of the northern Bering Sea, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-404, 384 p., http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/data/0625/06255005/usgs_ofr83-404_06255005.pdf.

Hampton, M.A., Lee, Homa J., and Beard, Richard M., 1982, Geological interpretation of cone penetrometer tests in Norton Sound, Alaska, in Seafloor stability of continental margins research conference: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 2 no. 3-4, pp. 223–230.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
3dot5 on off file
12khz --- Single Beam
12khz on off file (start and end of paper rolls)
minisparker --- Sparker
minisparker on off (start and end of paper rolls)
gravitycore --- Geology
All core descriptions (html list of files)
gravity core locations (station numbers 665G1-678G2)
penetrometer --- Geology
survey information (data values)
LoranC --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data d-4-81-ns.052 (Provisional best file)
Alpinecore --- Geology
core locations (site 680-687)
VanVeengrab --- Geology
vibracore information
vanveengrab location (676VV NO DATA)
vibratingcore --- Geology
core locations (sample descriptions and locations 680A3-687A3)
bathymetry --- Single Beam

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