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Field Activity Details for field activity G2973WP

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AKA: DSDP29GC

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Deep Sea Drilling Project (MU082)

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): R. Houtz J.P. Kennett

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Lyttleton, New Zealand

End Port/Location: Wellington, New Zealand

Start Date: 1973-03-02

End Date: 1973-04-17

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 29: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/29/leg29.htm

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Western Pacific

Boundaries
North: -40.04331644 South: -49.54512686 West: 143.3364 East: 174.57666001

Platform(s):

photo of Glomar Challenger
Glomar Challenger

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

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

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