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Field Activity Details for field activity F789EG

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AKA: none

Other ID: F-7-89-EG,F-7-89-GA

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

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

Principal Investigator(s): Terry Bruns, Andy Stevenson

Affiliate Investigator(s): Maxwell Dobson (University of Wales)

Information Specialist(s): Sharon Allshouse

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Yakutat Harbor, AK

End Port/Location: ?

Start Date: 1989-06-14

End Date: 1989-07-10

Equipment Used: GPS, RhoRho, gravity, magnetics, Gloriasidescan, 2channelairgun, 10khz, 3.5khz, expendablebatthermograph, bottomtransponder, integratednavigation, tempsalinometer

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Mike Baldwin, Michael Boyle, Heidi Dieffenbach, Grace Fong, Ledabeth Pickthorn, Andy Stevenson

Affiliate Staff:
John Campbell (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Stephen McPhail (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Jeremy Evans (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Stephen Whittle (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Gareth Knight (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
John Cannan (Farnella) - Captain
Bill Wilson (Farnella) - Mate

Notes: Associated cruises: F-1-86-GA F-6-89-GA F-7-89-EG F-9-88-WG

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Terry Bruns (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Andy Stevenson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Mike Boyle (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Ledabeth Pickthorn (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Grace Fong (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Heidi Dieffenbach (USGS Western Region) - Unspecified Investigator
John Campbell (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Stephen McPhail (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Jeremy Evans (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Stephen Whittle (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Gareth Knight (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences) - Unspecified Investigator
Maxwell Dobson (University of Wales) - Chief Scientist
John Cannan (Farnella) - Captain
Bill Wilson (Farnella) - Mate
Mike Baldwin (Farnella) - Engineer

Location:

Eastern Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 59.51748 South: 50.95163 West: -144.418 East: -130.54446

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Bruns, T.R., Carlson, P.R., Stevenson, A.J., and Dobson, M.R., 1990, Geology along the Fairweather-Queen Charlotte fault system off Southeast Alaska and British Columbia from GLORIA images and seismic-reflection data: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74 no. 6, pp. 962–962.

Bruns, T.R., Carlson, P.R., Stevenson, A.J., Fisher, M.A., Ryan, H.F., Mann, D.M., Dobson, M.R., Huggett, Q.J., Parson, L.M., and Fannin, N.G.T., 1990, GLORIA mosaic of the Gulf of Alaska and the British Columbia margin; deep-sea channels, margin deformation, and the Queen Charlotte Fault: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74 no. 5, pp. 620–620.

Carlson, P.R., Bruns, T.R., Mann, D.M., and Stevenson, A.J., 1996, Gloria imagery links sedimentaiton in Aleutian Trench and Abyssal Plain to Yakutat Margin via deep-sea channels: Houston, TX, Gulf Publishing Co., Fifth Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference Transactions, pp. 695–702.

Carlson, P.R., 1990, GLORIA imagery provides clues to Quaternary sedimentary history in the Gulf of Alaska, in: Circumpolar perspectives; 1990 Arctic science conference; abstracts: , Anchorage, AK, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Division.

Carlson, P.R., Bruns, T.R., Stevenson, A.J., Mann, D.M., Huggett, Q.J., Wormly, U.K., and Dobson, M.R., 1990, Sedimentary depositional environments in the Gulf of Alaska from GLORIA imagery: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74 no. 5, pp. 624–624.

Carlson, P.R., Bruns, T.R., Huggett, Q.J., Mann, D.M., and Stevenson, A.J.,, 1990, GLORIA imagery links sedimentation in Aleutian Trench to Yakutat margin via Surveyor Channel: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74 no. 6, pp. 962–963.

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/.

Stevenson, A.J., Bruns, T.R., Carlson, P.R., and Dobson, M.R., 1990, Sediment transport and fan deposition in the Gulf of Alaska; effects of transform motion on deep sea sedimentation: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74 no. 6, pp. 1003–1003.

Portals/Viewers

FAN F789EG 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=F789EG.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data f-7-89-eg.060
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Loran C data f-7-89-eg.030-hyp
Loran C data f-7-89-eg.030-rho
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from digital meter f-7-89-eg.101
Gravity lines start/end control data f-7-89-eg.130
Raw gravity data from digital meter f-7-89-eg.102
Gravity land tie data f-7-89-eg.140
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-7-89-eg.151_081
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-7-89-eg.151_082 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
Tape list
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-7-89-eg.150
landtie
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-7-89-eg.151
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data f-7-89-eg.201_081
Edited magnetics data f-7-89-eg.221_082 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
Raw magnetics data f-7-89-eg.201_082
Edited magnetics data f-7-89-eg.220
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw magnetics data f-7-89-eg.201
Gloriasidescan --- Sidescan
Survey information
Gloria (data on FAD)
File list
2channelairgun --- Multichannel
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-7-89-eg.410
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-7-89-eg.410_082 (Provisional best file)
stk.tar data f-7-89-eg.stk.tar (Provisional best file)
Raw seismic shot point data f-7-89-eg.400_081
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Survey information
Air gun data
seismic (data on FAD)
Raw seismic shot point data f-7-89-eg.400
Multichannel data (srt data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
10khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-7-89-eg.320_082 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-7-89-eg.320
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-7-89-eg.320_081
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
Station Information
bottomtransponder --- Transects
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Survey information
Integrated navigation (SINS) data f-7-89-eg.050
Farnella ABC data f-7-89-eg.080
Farnella ABC data f-7-89-eg.081 (Provisional best file)
Farnella ABC data f-7-89-eg.082
Lines
Tape list
Farnella ABC data f-7-89-eg.082_30min
Farnella ABC data f-7-89-eg.081_degree
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature

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