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Field Activity Details for field activity G6278NP

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AKA: DSDP62GC, G-62-78-NP

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Joanne C. Ferreira, Tracy Vallier

Affiliate Investigator(s):

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): None

Start Port/Location: Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands

End Port/Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Start Date: 1978-07-29

End Date: 1978-09-06

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical holdings Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 62: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/62/leg62.htm

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Publications
Hein, James R., Vallier, Tracy L., and Vanek, Eva E., 1980, Formation of
siliceous rocks
in the central North Pacific, Leg 62, DSDP: Congres Geologique Internationale
Resumes,
no. 26, v. 2, p. 483.
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Hein, James R., Vanek, Eva, Thiede, Joern, Vallier, Tracy L., Adelseck, Charles
G., Boersma, Anne,
Cepek, Pavel, Dean, Walter E., Fujii, Naoyuki, Koporulin, Vladimir I., Rea,
David K., Sancetta,
Constance A., Sayre, William O., Seifert, Karl E., Schaaf, Andre, Schmidt,
Ronald R., Windom,
Kenneth E., and Vincent, Edith, 1981, Origin and alteration of volcanic ash and
pelagic brown clay,
Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 62, north-central Pacific, in Stout, Larry N.,
ed., Leg 62 of the
cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll, Marshall
Islands to Honolulu,
Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62,
p. 559-570.
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Dean, Walter E., Thiede, Joern, Vallier, Tracy L., Adelseck, Charles G.,
Boersma, Anne., Cepek,
Pavel, Dean, Walter E; Fujii, Naoyuki; Koporulin, Vladimir I; Rea, David K;
Sancetta, Constance A.,
Sayre, William O., Seifert, Karl E., Schaaf, Andre, Schmidt, Ronald R., Windom,
Kenneth E.,
and Vincent, Edith, 1981, Inorganic geochemistry of sediments and rocks from the
Mid-Pacific
Mountains and Hess Rise, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 62, in Stout, Larry N.,
ed., Leg 62 of
the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll, Marshall
Islands to Honolulu,
Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62,
p. 685-710.
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Hein, James R., Vallier, Tracy L., Allan, Mary Ann, 1981, Chert petrology and
geochemistry,
Mid-Pacific Mountains and Hess Rise, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 62, in Stout,
Larry N., ed.,
Leg 62 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll, Marshall Islands
to Honolulu, Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep
Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62, p. 711-748.
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Hein, James R., Yeh, Hsueh-Wen, 1981, Oxygen-isotope composition of chert from
the Mid-Pacific
Mountains and Hess Rise, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 62, in Stout, Larry N.,
ed.,
Leg 62 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll,
Marshall Islands
to Honolulu, Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep
Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62, p. 749-758.
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Koski, Randolph A., and Hein, James R., 1981, Petrographic and chemical
characteristics of
pyrite-marcasite mineralization in Hole 465A, southern Hess Rise, in Stout, Larry N., ed.,
Leg 62 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll,
Marshall Islands
to Honolulu, Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep
Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62, p. 855-862.
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Vallier, Tracy L., Windom, Kenneth E., Seifert, Karl E., and Lee-Wong, Florence,
1981, Petrologic
and tectonic significance of volcanic clasts in Upper Cretaceous nannofossil
ooze, Deep Sea
Drilling Project Site 466, southern Hess Rise, in Stout, Larry N., ed.,
Leg 62 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll,
Marshall Islands
to Honolulu, Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep
Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62, p. 961-966.
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Lee-Wong, Florence, 1981, Feldspar compositions of volcanic flow rocks from Hess
Rise, Deep
Sea Drilling Project Leg 62, in Stout, Larry N., ed.,
Leg 62 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger; Marjuro Atoll,
Marshall Islands
to Honolulu, Hawaii, July-September 1978 [modified]: Initial Reports of the Deep
Sea Drilling
Project, v. 62, p. 967-970.
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Hein, James R., Koski, Randolph A., and Morgenson, Lisa A., 1982, Uranium and
thorium
enrichment in rocks from the base of DSDP hole 465A, Hess Rise, central North
Pacific:
Chemical Geology, v. 36, no. 3-4, p. 237-251.

Location:

Northern Pacific

Boundaries
North: 20.96143961 South: 5.4410223 West: 162.59614412 East: 177.36400707

Platform(s):

photo of Glomar Challenger
Glomar Challenger

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

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

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