Field Activity Details for field activity G6378NP

AKA: DSDP63GC, G-63-78-NP

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): B. Haq, R. Yeats

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

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Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Long Beach, California

End Port/Location: Mazatlan, Mexico

Start Date: 1978-10-09

End Date: 1978-11-27

Equipment Used: magnetometer, transitsatellite, core, 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 63: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/63/leg63.htm Publications: Vedder, J.G., Crouch, J.K., and Lee-Wong, Florence, 1981, Comparative study of rocks from Deep Sea Drilling Project holes 467, 468, and 469 and the southern California borderland, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Leg 63 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Long Beach, California to Mazatlan, Mexico, October-November 1978: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 63, p. 907-918.

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

MCG Data Collection ID --- G6378NP
Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP63GC
NGDC ID --- 15050062
Funding --- (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG 63
Study region --- +34.00000,+20.00000,-121.00000,-106.00000
Chief Scientist(s) --- HAQ B.,YEATS R.
Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 10/09/78 SAN PEDRO,CALIFORNIA
Date field data collection ended --- 11/27/78 MAZATLAN,MEXICO
Parameters surveyed ---
Bathymetry: surveyed, contained in data file
Magnetics: surveyed, contained in data file
Gravity: not surveyed
High-resolution seismics: surveyed, but not contained in data file
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 --- 07/03/80
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 --- 3.5-12KHZ/EDO 550A RECORDERS/WIDE 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 --- 1500.0 m/sec
Bathymetric datum code --- No correction applied (sea level)
Bathmetry interpolation scheme --- 5 MINUTE INTERVAL

Magnetics instrumentation --- GEOMETRICS MAGNETOMETER MOD G-801/3
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-75
Method of applying residual field --- LIN. INTERP.POINTS WITHIN ONE DEGREE
SQUARE

Seismic instrumentation --- 20TO300CU.IN.AIRGUN,10-300HZ,EDO 550 REC
Formats of seismic data --- ANAL.RECORDS,35MM MICROFILM

Location:

Northern Pacific

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