AKA: none
Other ID: L-3-84-SP
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): David Scholl
Affiliate Investigator(s): Rick Herzer (NZ)
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals:
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Suva Fiji and Tongatapu
End Port/Location: Tongatapu and Suva Fiji
Start Date: 1984-04-02
End Date: 1984-05-01
Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, transitsatellite, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, magnetics, gravity, airgun, 24channel, gravitycore, chaindredge, Niskenbottle, expendablebatthermograph, underwatercamera, airgunmonitor, sonobuoy, tempsalinometer
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings
Staff: John Dobranski, Jon Erickson, Robin Frisch, Chris Gutmacher, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Kooker, Dennis Mann, Jill McCarthy, Jan Morton, Chris Poppe, Paula Quinterno, Ray Sliter, Andy Stevenson, Tracy Vallier, Paul Wenberg
Affiliate Staff:
David Tappin (Tonga) - Geologist
George Chaproniere (Aust) - Biologist
Pat Moore - Ship Captain
Peter Ballance (NZ) - Geologist
Peter Cawood (Aust) - Geologist
Rob O'Connor - Geologist
Tevita Vuibau (Fiji) - Geologist
Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-3-84-sp.073, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 6530 kilometers.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Andy Stevenson - Geologist
Chris Gutmacher - Navigator
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Dave Scholl - Chief Scientist
David Tappin (Tonga) - Geologist
Dennis Mann - Geophysicist
George Chaproniere (Aust) - Biologist
Jack Lee - Electronics Technician
Jan Morton - Geophysicist
Jill McCarthy - Geophysicist
John Dobranski - Chief Engineer
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Pat Moore - Ship Captain
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Paula Quinterno - Biologist
Peter Ballance (NZ) - Geologist
Peter Cawood (Aust) - Geologist
Ray Sliter - Geophysicist
Rick Herzer (NZ) - Chief Scientist
Rob O'Connor - Geologist
Robin Frisch - Navigator
Tevita Vuibau (Fiji) - Geologist
Tracy Vallier - Geologist
Location:
Southern Pacific
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: -18.13553 | South: -26.50575 | West: 178.391 | East: -174.74606 |
Platform(s):
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Chan, L.H., Zhang, L., and Hein, J.R., 1994, Lithium isotope characteristics of marine sediments: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 75 no. 44, pp. 314–314.
Cole, J.E., and Mann, D.M., 1985, Velocity analyses of near seafloor strata based on multichannel seismic data from the Tonga Platform, in Scholl, David W., and Vallier, Tracy L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs: Tonga region: Houston, TX, Circum-Pacific Council Energy and Mineral Resources.
Greene, H.G., Scholl, D.W., Vedder, J.G., and Wong, F.L., 1988, Oil and gas potential of island arcs in the Southwest Pacific; a new frontier: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 10, pp. 671–691.
Hein, J.R., Schulz, Marjorie S., and Kang, Jung-Keuk, 1988, Hydrothermal and hydrogenetic ferromanganese oxide mineralization of active volcanic arcs, in Schindler, Katharine S., ed., USGS research on mineral resources, 1989; program and abstracts: U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1035, pp. 29–30.
Hein, J.R., Koschinsky, A., Halbach, P.E., Manheim, F.T., Bau, M., Kang, J.-K., and Lubick, N., 1997, Iron and manganese oxide mineralization in the Pacific, in Nicholson, Keith, Hein, James R., Buehn, Bernhard, and Dasgupta, Somnath, eds., Manganese mineralization; geochemistry and mineralogy of terrestrial and marine deposits: Geological Society Special Publications, v. 119, pp. 123–138.
Morton, J.L., Scholl, D.W., Vallier, T.L., Herzer, R.H., Stevenson, A.J., and McCarthy, J., 1984, An active spreading center in the Lau back-arc basin defined, in The Geological Society of America, 97th meeting: , Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 601–601.
Steele, W.C., and Kinoshita, K.L., 1986, Navigation for CCOP/SOPAC Cruise, Leg 3, Solomon Islands: In: Vedder, J.G., Pound, K.S., and Boundy, S.Q. (Eds.). Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; central and western Solomon Islands, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 4, , pp. 19–20.
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.
von Blanckenburg, F., O'Nions, R.K., Belshaw, N.S., Gibb, A., and Hein, J.R., 1996, Global distribution of beryllium isotopes in deep ocean water as derived from Fe-Mn crusts: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 141 no. 1-4, pp. 213–226.
Wong, F.L., Richmond, B.A., Greene, H.G., Dingler, J.R., Hein, J.R., Kvenvolden, K.A., Marlow, M.S., Morton, J.L., Rubin, D.M., Scholl, D.W., and Vedder, J.G., 1991, SOPAC; a decade of research on mineral and hydrocarbon resources in the South Pacific: In: Good, E.E., Slack, J.F., and Kotra, R.K. (Eds.), USGS research on mineral resources, 1991; program and abstracts. U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1062, pp. 78–79.
