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AKA: none

Other ID: L-2-86-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Bill Normark

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam, Location-Elevation: Transects, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Eureka, CA, start Leg I and Eureka, CA, start leg II

End Port/Location: Eureka, CA, end Leg I and Eureka, CA

Start Date: 1986-07-17

End Date: 1986-08-02

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, pinger, submersible, bottomtransponder, GPS, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, gravitycore, chaindredge, fishtrap, underwatercamera, underwatertelevision

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Al McClenaghan, Bill Lafleur, Charlaine Fleishman, Chris Gutmacher, Chris Poppe, Chuck Gilbert, Dave Hogg, Jan Morton, Jeff Stampfer, Jon Erickson, Kaye Kinoshita, Kevin O'Toole, Mark Holmes, Michael Boyle, Randy Koski, Rick Viall, Rob Zierenberg, Stephanie Ross, Wendy Bohrson, Henry Chezar

Affiliate Staff:
Andrew Carey (Osu) - Biologist
Barbara Seekins - Watchstander
Charlie Johnson (Navy) - Unsp Investigatr
Chuck Heywood - Navigator
Dave Stein (OSU) - Biologist
Debby Tatman - Watchstander
Glenn James (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Greg McMurray (DOGAMI) - Watchstander
Jim Dodge (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Joe Craver (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
John Smith (MMS) - Unspecified Investigator
Mitch Lyle (OSU) - Geologist
Russ Grocki (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Terry Owen (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Andrew Carey (Osu) - Biologist
Barbara Seekins - Watchstander
Bill Lafleur - Chief Engineer
Bill Normark - Chief Scientist
Charlaine Fleishman - Watchstander
Hank Chezar - Cameraman
Charlie Johnson (Navy) - Unsp Investigatr
Chris Gutmacher - Navigator
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Chuck Gilbert - Navigator
Chuck Heywood - Navigator
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Dave Stein (OSU) - Biologist
Debby Tatman - Watchstander
Glenn James (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Greg McMurray (DOGAMI) - Watchstander
Jan Morton - Geophysicist
Jeff Stampfer - Mechanical Technician
Jim Dodge (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Joe Craver (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
John Smith (MMS) - Unspecified Investigator
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Kevin O'Toole - Mechanical Technician
Mark Holmes - Geophysicist
Mike Boyle - Electronics Technician
Mitch Lyle (OSU) - Geologist
Randy Koski - Geologist
Rick Viall - Electronics Technician
Rob Zierenberg - Geologist
Russ Grocki (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Stephanie Ross - Geophysicist
Terry Owen (Navy) - Unspecified Investigator
Wendy Bohrson - Geologist

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 41.13013 South: 40.63187 West: -127.6126 East: -124.18832

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Bohlke, J.K., and Shanks, W.C., III,, 1994, Stable isotope study of hydrothermal vents at Escanaba Trough; observed and calculated effects of sediment-seawater interaction, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 223–239.

Campbell, A.C., German, Chris R., Palmer, Martin R., Gamo, Toshitaka, and Edmond, John M., 1994, Chemistry of hydrothermal fluids from Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 201–221.

Chezar, H., and Newman, I., 2006, Overview: DVD-video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1101, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1101/.

Chezar, H., and Newman, Ivy, 2004, DVD-Video Disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1133.

Chezar, H., and Newman, Ivy, 2004, DVD-Video Disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1134.

Chezar, H., and Newman, Ivy, 2004, DVD-Video Disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1135.

Davis, A.S., Clague, D.A., and Friesen, W.B., 1994, Petrology and mineral chemistry of basalt from Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 153–170.

Davis, E.E., and Becker, Keir, 1994, Thermal and tectonic structure of Escanaba Trough; new heat-flow measurements and seismic-reflection profiles, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 45–64.

Denlinger, R.P., and Holmes, Mark L., 1994, A thermal and mechanical model for sediment hills and associated sulfide deposits along Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds. Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 65–75.

Grassle, J.F., and Petrecca, Rosemarie F., 1994, Soft-sediment hydrothermal vent communities of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 327–335.

Karlin, R.E., and Morton, Janet L., 1994, Crustal magnetization and basement structure of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 77–90.

Karlin, R.E., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Sedimentation and neotectonism in the SESCA area, Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 131–141.

Koski, R.A., Benninger, L.M., Zierenberg, R.A., and Jonasson, I.R., 1994, Composition and growth history of hydrothermal deposits in Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge: In: Morton, J.L., Zierenberg, R.A., and Reiss, C.A. (Eds.). U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022(Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California), pp. 293–324, https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b2022.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Rapp, John B., and Hostettler, Frances D, 1994, Hydrocarbons in sediment from Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 279–292.

Magenheim, A.J., and Gieskes, Joris M., 1994, Evidence for hydrothermal fluid flow through surficial sediments, Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 241–255.

Morton, J.L., Zierenberg, R. A., and Reiss, C. A., 1994, Eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2202, 359 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b2022.

Morton, J.L., Koski, R.A., Normark, W.R., and Ross, S.L., 1987, Distribution and composition of massive sulfide deposits at Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge: In: McMurray, G.R. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Gorda Ridge Symposium: New York, NY, Springer-Verlag Gorda Ridge: a seafloor spreading center in the United States' Exclusive Economic Zone.

Morton, J.L., Normark, W.R., Ross, S.L., Koski, R.A., Holmes, M.L., Shanks III, W.C., Zierenberg, R.A., Lyle, M.W., and Benninger, L.M., 1987, Preliminary report, cruises L1-86-NC and L2-86-NC, Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-375-A, 20 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1987/0375c/report.pdf.

Morton, J.L., and Fox, Christopher G., 1994, Structural setting and interaction of volcanism and sedimentation at Escanaba Trough; geophysical results, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 21–43.

Morton, J.L., Normark, William R., Clague, David A., and Holmes, Mark L., 1987, Fine-scale segmentation of the sedimented southern Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, General Assembly, v. 19 no. 1, pp. 88–88.

Morton, J.L., Normark, William R., Holmes, Mark L., and Lyle, Mitchell W., 1987, Geologic setting of two sediment-hosted hydrothermal mineral localities in Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, in Sachs, Janet Somerville, ed., USGS research on mineral resources, 1987; program and abstracts: U. S. Geological Survey Circular 0995, pp. 49–50.

Morton, J.L., Zierenberg, Robert A., and Reiss, Carol A., 1994, Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough; an introduction, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., and Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 1–18.

Morton, J.L., Holmes, M.L., Normark, W.R., Ross, S.L., and Lyle, M.W., 1986, Sedimentary setting of massive sulfide deposits, Escanaba Trough, offshore Northern California: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 67 no. 44, pp. 1282–1283.

Normark, W.R., Gutmacher, C.E., Zierenberg, R.A., Wong, F.L., and Rosenbauer, R.J., 1994, Sediment fill of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 91–129.

Quinterno, P.J., 1994, Quaternary foraminifers from Escanaba Trough, Northeast Pacific Ocean, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 337–359.

Ross, S.L., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Volcanic geomorphology of the SESCA and NESCA sites, Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 143–151.

Wong, F.L., 1989, Mineralogy of sand in turbidites from Escanaba Trough, Northeast Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-0661, 10 p.

Zierenberg, R.A., Morton, J.L., Koski, R.A., and Ross, S.L., 1994, Geologic setting of massive sulfide mineralization in Escanaba Trough: In: Morton, J.L., Zierenberg, R.A., and Reiss, C.A. (Eds.). U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022(Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore northern California), pp. 171–197.

Zierenberg, R.A., and Shanks, Wayne C., II, 1994, Sediment alteration associated with massive sulfide formation in Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge; the importance of seawater mixing and magnesium metasomatism, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, pp. 257–277.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Survey information
pinger --- Transects
submersible --- Photo
Video
Biology
Geology
bottomtransponder --- Transects
Survey information
GPS --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-2-86-nc.070 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
Position update data l-2-86-nc.020
Tape list
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-2-86-nc.050
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-2-86-nc.070_degree
Lines
RhoRho --- Navigation
Loran C data l-2-86-nc.030
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data l-2-86-nc.000
gravitycore --- Geology
07g
09g
28g
Station Information
foram slides (data in holdings)
04g
02g
chaindredge --- Geology
12d
16d
26d
20d
22d
23d
24d
25d
Station Information
14d
17d
18d
fishtrap --- Biology
Station Information
underwatercamera --- Photo
underwatertelevision --- Video
media (processed video from DVD on FAD)

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