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Field Activity Details for field activity F187BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: F-1-87-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

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

Principal Investigator(s): Alan Cooper, Ralph Hunter

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Adak, AK

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1987-06-28

End Date: 1987-07-28

Equipment Used: GPS, RhoRho, transitsatellite, 10khz, 3.5khz, airgun, gravitycore, gradiometer, expendablebatthermograph, gravity, 2channelairgun, Gloriasidescan, tempsalinometer

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Associated cruises in Alaska F-1-87-BS F-2-86-BS F-3-86-BS F-4-86-BS

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Alan Cooper (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Ralph Hunter (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Aleutian Basin

Boundaries
North: 56.2839 South: 51.6582 West: 169.992 East: 179.88778438

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Cooper, A.K., Hunter, Ralph E., Huggett, Quentin, and Harris, Malcolm, 1987, GLORIA study of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska--southern Bering Sea (Bowers Basin); initial report for Cruise F1-87-BS, 28 June to 27 July 1987: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-0579, 19 p.

Hall, R.K., Karl, H.A., Carlson, P.R., Cooper, A.K., Gardner, J.V., Hunter, R.E., Marlow, M.S., and Stevenson, A.J., 1988, Bathymetric map of the Bowers Basin and Aleutian Basin east of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. 1867 Convention Line, Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-0548, 8 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr89548.

Marlow, M.S., Cooper, A.K., Dadisman, S.V., Geist, E.L., and Carlson, P.R., 1990, Bowers swell â Evidence for a zone of compressive deformation concentric with Bowers Ridge, Bering Sea: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 7 no. 4, pp. 398–409.

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/.

Portals/Viewers

FAN F187BS 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=F187BS.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data f-1-87-bs.052
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data f-1-87-bs.073
Lines
Farnella ABC data f-1-87-bs.080 (Provisional best file)
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data f-1-87-bs.070
Survey information
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data f-1-87-bs.072
Farnella ABC data f-1-87-bs.080_degree
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
10khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-1-87-bs.320
Survey information
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-1-87-bs.320_080 (Provisional best file)
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
156753 186 00 21 LINE 198 - 189 16 45 LINE 206
Survey information
156753 181 17 25 LINE 180 - 186 00 14 LINE 197
156753 189 16 57 LINE 207 - 192 22 55 LINE 221
156753 192 23 20 LINE 221 - 197 22 11 LINE 231
156753 201 07 58 LINE 237 - 205 01 51 LINE 247
156753 197 22 23 LINE 232 - 201 07 43 LINE 236
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
156754 200 06 08 LINE 235 - 201 07 39 LINE 236
156754 191 17 00 LINE 214 - 192 00 00 LINE 215
156754 189 04 42 LINE 205 - 190 02 41 LINE 207
156754 192 23 00 LINE 221 - 194 15 15 LINE 225
156754 184 21 58 LINE 195 - 186 00 13 LINE 197
156754 186 17 19 LINE 200 - 188 06 04 LINE 203
156754 192 00 08 LINE 216 - 192 22 38 LINE 220
156754 197 01 59 LINE 228 - 197 19 11 LINE 231
156754 199 00 51 LINE 233 - 200 05 56 LINE 234
156754 203 07 28 LINE 241 - 203 23 50 LINE 242
Survey information
156754 182 02 56 LINE 184 - 182 23 00 LINE 187
156754 188 06 12 LINE 204 - 189 01 58 LINE 205
156754 201 08 25 LINE 237 - 202 08 16 LINE 239
156754 182 23 12 LINE 188 - 183 18 51 LINE 190
156754 183 18 52 LINE 190 - 184 21 57 LINE 194
156754 190 02 42 LINE 208 - 190 16 38 LINE 211
156754 194 15 25 LINE 226 - 197 01 50 LINE 227
156754 197 22 21 LINE 232 - 199 00 48 LINE 232
156754 203 23 51 LINE 243 - 205 01 51 LINE 247
156754 181 09 45 LINE TR - 182 02 49 LINE 183
156754 186 00 16 LINE 198 - 186 17 13 LINE 199
156754 190 16 39 LINE 211 - 191 16 59 LINE 213
156754 202 08 21 LINE 239 - 203 04 14 LINE 240
gravitycore --- Geology
Station Information
gradiometer --- Magnetics
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw gradiometer data f-1-87-bs.240
Raw gradiometer data f-1-87-bs.244_080
Survey information
Raw gradiometer data f-1-87-bs.243
Raw magnetics data f-1-87-bs.200
Raw gradiometer data f-1-87-bs.245
Raw gradiometer data f-1-87-bs.244
Edited gradiometer data f-1-87-bs.260_080 (Provisional best file)
Tape list
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
Station Information
gravity --- Gravity
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-1-87-bs.152_080 (Provisional best file)
Gravity lines start/end control data f-1-87-bs.131
Gravity lines start/end control data f-1-87-bs.130
Gravity land tie data f-1-87-bs.140
Tape list
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-1-87-bs.152
Free Air Anomaly data f-1-87-bs.162
Raw gravity data from digital meter f-1-87-bs.103
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-1-87-bs.150
Free Air Anomaly data f-1-87-bs.160
2channelairgun --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data f-1-87-bs.421_080
Survey information
SCAG (data on FAD)
Multichannel data (srt data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Air gun data
Edited seismic shot point data f-1-87-bs.421
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-1-87-bs.410_080 (Provisional best file)
Edited seismic shot point data f-1-87-bs.420
Gloriasidescan --- Sidescan
File list
GLORIA (data on FAD)
Sidescan mosaic
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature

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