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Field Activity Details for field activity G1871NP

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AKA: DSDP18GC, G-18-71-NP

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Roland VonHuene

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

End Port/Location: Kodiak, Alaska

Start Date: 1971-05-29

End Date: 1971-07-19

Equipment Used: magnetics, transitsatellite, core, airgun, airgunmonitor, 12khz, bathymetry

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: data in holdings Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 18: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/18/leg18.htm

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: FAN created by CR 11/15/2018 from InfoBank; track charts in holdings.
Publications:
Kulm, La Verne D., Prince, Roger A., and Snavely, Parke D., Jr., 1973, Appendix I, Part A;
Site survey of the northern Oregon continental margin and Astoria Fan, in Musich, Lillian F.,
and Weser, Oscar E., eds., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project,
covering Leg 18of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Honolulu, Hawaii to
Kodiak, Alaska
May-July 1971: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 18, p.
979-987.
DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data)

MCG Data Collection ID --- G1871NP
Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP18GC
NGDC ID --- 15050016
Funding --- (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG 18
Study region --- +58.00000,+21.00000,-158.00000,-124.00000
Chief Scientist(s) --- KULM L.,VON HUENE R.
Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 05/29/71 HONOLULU,HAWAII
Date field data collection ended --- 07/18/71 KODIAK,ALASKA
Parameters surveyed ---
Bathymetry: surveyed, contained in data file
Magnetics: surveyed, contained in data file
Gravity: not surveyed
High-resolution seismics: not surveyed
Deep penetration seismics: surveyed, but not contained in data file
Format ---

(I1,A8,F5.2,4I2,F5.3,F8.5,F9.5,I1,F6.4,F6.1,I2,i1,3F6.1,I1,F5.1,F6.0,F7.1,F6.1,F5.1,A8,4I1)
Date of data input to NGDC --- 11/22/79
Contributing institution --- SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Country --- USA

Navigation instrumentation --- SATNAV,MANUAL ENTRY GYRO AND SPD CHANGES
Position determination method --- LINEAR INTERP.BETWEEN ADJACENT FIXES

Bathymetry instrumentation --- 12KHZ/GIFFT RECORDER/WIDE(60DEG)BEAM
Additional forms of bathymetric data --- ANAL.RECORDS,CARDS,35MMFILM
General rate of bathymetry in file --- 5.0 minutes
General collection rate of bathymetry --- 1SECONDSWEEP
Assumed sound velocity --- 1463.0 m/sec
Bathymetric datum code --- No correction applied (sea level)
Bathmetry interpolation scheme --- 5 MINUTE INTERVAL

Magnetics instrumentation --- VARIAN MFD PROTON PRECESSION MOD 4970
Additional forms of magnetics data --- ANAL.RECORDS,CARDS,35MMFILM
General rate of magnetics in file --- 5.0 minutes
General collection rate of magnetics --- 6 seconds
Magnetic sensor tow distance --- (unspecified)
Magnetic sensor depth --- (unspecified)
Two sensor horizontal separation --- (unspecified)
Residual magnetics reference field --- IGRF-65
Method of applying residual field --- LIN.INTERP.AT 30DEG C/C OR 500MI ALONG
TRACK

Seismic instrumentation --- 20TO300CU.IN.AIRGUN,10-300HZ,EDO PSR REC
Formats of seismic data --- ANAL.RECORDS,35MM MICROFILM

Notes ---
*TIME*NAV AND RECORDS ORIGINALLY IN LOCAL TZ. DIGITIZED DATA CONVERTED TO GMT.

Location:

North Pacific

Boundaries
North: 63.98367033 South: 12.89748918 West: -171.67386891 East: -124.8055343

Platform(s):

photo of Glomar Challenger
Glomar Challenger

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
magnetics --- Magnetics
transitsatellite --- Navigation
core --- Biology
Geology
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
12khz --- Single Beam
bathymetry --- Single Beam

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