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Field Activity Details for field activity G3273NP

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AKA: DSDP32GC, G-32-73-NP

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): R. Larsen, R.M. Moberley

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: Hakodate, Japan

End Port/Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Start Date: 1973-08-15

End Date: 1973-10-11

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical holdings publications: Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 32: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/32/leg32.htm

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: FAN created from InfoBank on 11/15/2018 by CR.
DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data)

MCG Data Collection ID --- G3273NP
Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP32GC
NGDC ID --- 15050030
Funding --- (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG 32
Study region --- +42.00000,+20.00000,+140.00000,-162.00000
Chief Scientist(s) --- LARSON R.L.,MOBERLY R.M.
Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 08/15/73 HAKODATE,JAPAN
Date field data collection ended --- 10/11/73 HONOLULU,HAWAII
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 --- 11/24/79
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

Location:

Northern Pacific

Boundaries
North: 47.04018214 South: 12.21118019 West: 137.10985888 East: 179.29711694

Platform(s):

photo of Glomar Challenger
Glomar Challenger

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
magnetometer --- 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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