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Field Activity Details for field activity L1381NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-13-81-NC,LD13

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Field, Jim Gardner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

End Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1981-10-09

End Date: 1981-10-23

Equipment Used: velocimeter, 12khz, 3.5khz, underwatercamera, underwatertelevision, sidescansonar, CTD, Geoprobe, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, miniranger, transitsatellite, gravitycore, Niskenbottle, uniboom, airgun, gravity

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings data on FAD

Staff: Roger Anderson, Michael Boyle, Henry Chezar, Walter Dean, Aaron Dunwald, Brian Edwards, Jon Erickson, Bob Hall, Kaye Kinoshita, Dave Klise, Larry Kooker, Carol Madison, Dave Melendrez, Terry Ruff, Jack Swenson, Michael Torresan, Paul Wenberg

Affiliate Staff:
Anne Jennings - Watchstander
Chris Wilson - Watchstander

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Anne Jennings - Watchstander
Bob Hall - Watchstander
Brian Edwards - Geologist
Carol Madison - Navigator
Chris Wilson - Watchstander
Dave Klise - Geologist
Dave Melendrez - Chief Mate
Hank Chezar - Watchstander
Jack Swenson - Watchstander
Jim Gardner - Chief Scientist
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Mike Boyle - Electronics Technician
Mike Field - Chief Scientist
Mike Torresan - Watchstander
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Roger Anderson - Geologist
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain
Walter Dean - Geologist

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 41.73982 South: 37.51182 West: -124.657 East: -122.18821

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Field, M.E., Edwards, B.D., and Chezar, H., 1986, Sediment patterns resulting from liquefaction of a shelf sand body, in Knight, R. John, and McLean, J. Ross, eds., Shelf sands and sandstones: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, v. 11, pp. 333–334.

Field, M.E., Edwards, Brian D., Hall, Robert K., and Chezar, Henry, 1983, Sediment failure on continental shelf; response to 1980 earthquake off Northern California, in American Association of Petroleum Geologists annual convention with divisions Society For Sedimentary Geology/EMD/DPA: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 67 no. 3, pp. 460–460.

Reid, J.A., Reid, J.M., Jenkins, C.J., Zimmermann, M., Williams, S.J., and Field, M.E., 2006, usSEABED: Pacific coast (California, Oregon, Washington) offshore surficial-sediment data release: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 182, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/182/.

Steele, W.C., Degnan, C.H., Deeter, G.B., and Riordan, J.A., 1989, Description of marine geophysical data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and how to obtain it: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-167, 26 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr89167.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
velocimeter --- Sound Velocity
12khz --- Single Beam
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-13-81-nc.301
Edited bathymetry data l-13-81-nc.330
Edited bathymetry data l-13-81-nc.330_051 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
underwatercamera --- Photo
Station Information
underwatertelevision --- Video
Survey information
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
Station Information
Geoprobe --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Station Information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Position update data l-13-81-nc.020
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-13-81-nc.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-13-81-nc.051 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-13-81-nc.051_degree
Tape list
Lines
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
miniranger --- Navigation
Raw Miniranger data l-13-81-nc.620
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-13-81-nc.000
Survey information
gravitycore --- Geology
g104
g144
g145
g147
g148
g117
g158
Station Information
g136
g153
g143
g112
g138
g204
g111
g119
g120
g133
foram slides (data in holdings)
g155
g201
g202
g203
g205
g206
g154
g118
g135
g139
g149
g150
g151
g152
g157
g122
g123
g124
g125
g126
g127
g129
g134
g140
g141
g142
g121
g108
g109
g110
g115
g116
g107
g103
Niskenbottle --- Chemistry
Station Information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity

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