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Field Activity Details for field activity F184SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: F-1-84-SC,F184COW

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) (MU116)

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Field, Brian Edwards

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Diego, CA

End Port/Location: Long Beach, CA

Start Date: 1984-04-26

End Date: 1984-05-21

Equipment Used: LoranC, 3.5khz, magnetics, airgun, Gloriasidescan, sidescansonar, transitsatellite

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Associated cruises: F-1-84-SC F-2-84-NC F-3-84-NC F-4-84-WO

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Mike Field (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Brian Edwards (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 34.5812 South: 31.3377 West: -124.809 East: -117.1378

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Edwards, B.D., Field, Michael E., Carlson, Paul R., and Kenyon, Neil H., 1985, Geomorphic features off Southern California as seen by GLORIA side-scan sonar system, 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. 251–251.

EEZ-SCAN 84 Scientific Staff,, 1985, MV Farnella cruises 1/84 to 4/84, 26 April to 15 August 1984; GLORIA studies of the Exclusive Economic Zone off the western United States between 30 degrees 30' and 48 degrees 30' N: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-508, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr85508.

Gardner, J.V., Cacchione, D.A., Drake, D.E., Edwards, B.D., Field, M.E., Hampton, M.A., Karl, H.A., Kenyon, N.H., Masson, D.G., McCulloch, D.S., and Grim, M.S., 1992, Map showing depth to basement in the deep-sea basins of the Pacific continental margin, Point Conception to Point Loma: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2089-B, https://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/2089/b/.

Gardner, J.V., Cacchione, D.A., Drake, D.E., Edwards, B.D., Field, M.E., Hampton, M.A., Karl, H.A., Kenyon, N.H., Masson, D.G., McCulloch, D.S., and Grim, M.S., 1992, Map showing sediment isopachs in the deep-sea basins of the Pacific continental margin, Point Conception to Point Loma: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-2089-A, https://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/2089/a/.

Paskevich, V.F., Wong, F.L., O'Malley, J.J., Stevenson, A.J., and Gutmacher, C.E., 2011, GLORIA sidescan-sonar imagery for parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent areas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1332, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1332/.

Steele, W.C., Degnan, C.H., Deeter, G.B., and Riordan, J.A., 1989, Description of marine geophysical data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and how to obtain it: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-167, 26 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr89167.

Wolf, S., and Gutmacher, C., 2004, Geologic and Bathymetric Reconnaissance Overview of the San Pedro Shelf Region, Southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1049, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1049/.

Wong, F.L., and Grim, M.S., 2015, Depth-to-basement, sediment-thickness, and bathymetry data for the deep-sea basins offshore of Washington, Oregon, and California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1118, 17 p.

Portals/Viewers

FAN F184SC 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=F184SC.

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