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Field Activity Details for field activity G297PS

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AKA: none

Other ID: G-2-97-PS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Crustal Earthquake Hazards (MU077)

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Childs, Samuel Johnson

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Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Bubble Gun, Seismics: Multichannel, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: High-resolution, seismic-reflection data were collected in central and southern Puget Sound and adjacent waterways in an effort to locate and characterize active faults within the Puget Sound lowland.

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Start Date: 1997-06-25

End Date: 1997-07-03

Equipment Used: GPS, bubblepulser, airgunmonitor, multichannel, integratednavigation, uniboom, bathymetry

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Location and characteristics of faults in southern Puget Sound.

Staff: Larry Kooker, Walt Olson, Kevin O'Toole, Fred Payne

Affiliate Staff:
Kurt Johnson - Captain
Curtis Lind - Chief Engineer
Dennys Marklight - Chief Mate

Notes: physical data holdings
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Shawn Dadisman (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Sam Johnson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Jon Childs (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Larry Kooker (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Tech
Fred Payne (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Tech
Kevin O'Toole (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Tech
Walter Barnhardt (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Walt Olsen (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Tech
Kurt Johnson - Captain
Curtis Lind - Chief Engineer
Dennys Marklight - Chief Mate

Location:

Washington

Boundaries
North: 47.98279 South: 47.08711 West: -122.98 East: -122.30549

Platform(s):


Robert Gray

Publications

Cochrane, G.R., 2022, Bathymetry and topography, video observation, and derived benthic habitat data offshore of Burien, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P96T1B44.

Cochrane, G.R., 2023, Multibeam echo sounder, video observation, and derived benthic habitat data offshore of Tacoma, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KA6GH2.

Portals/Viewers

FAN G297PS 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=G297PS.

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