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Field Activity Details for field activity L3A81NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-3A-81-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Dave McCulloch

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Hueneme, CA

End Port/Location: Merritt Shipyard, Oakland, CA

Start Date: 1981-04-16

End Date: 1981-04-26

Equipment Used: uniboom, airgun, 3.5khz, sparker, sonobuoy, integratednavigation, miniranger, 12khz, magnetics, gravity, transitsatellite

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Michael Boyle, Carolyn Degnan, Kaye Kinoshita, Dennis Mann, Pat McCrory, Bob Patrick, Terry Ruff, Jeff Rupert, Jim Saltzgaber, Holly Wagner, Hal Williams

Affiliate Staff:
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Kevin Heston - Geologist
Lisa Gossett - Navigator
Sara Monteith - Geologist

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Carolyn Degnan - Navigator
Dave McCulloch - Chief Scientist
Dennis Mann - Chief Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Hal Williams - Mechanical Technician
Holly Wagner - Geologist
Jeff Rupert - Mechanical Technician
Jim Saltzgaber - Chief Engineer
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Kevin Heston - Geologist
Lisa Gossett - Navigator
Mike Boyle - Electronics Technician
Pat McCrory - Geologist
Bob Patrick - Electronics Technician
Sara Monteith - Geologist
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 37.81914 South: 34.08567 West: -122.647 East: -119.20955

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

McCrory, P.A., Wilson, D.S., Ingle, J.C., Jr., and Stanley, R.G., 1995, Neogene transfer of Central California to the Pacific Plate; evidence from Santa Maria Basin, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 79 no. 4, pp. 593–593.

McCrory, P.A., Arends, R.G., Ingle, J.C., Jr., Isaacs, C.M., Stanley, R.G., Thornton, M.L.C., 1991, Geohistory analysis of the Santa Maria Basin, California, and its relationship to tectonic evolution of the continental margin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75 no. 2, pp. 374–374.

McCrory, P.A., Ingle, J.C., Jr., Wilson, D.S., and Stanley, R.G., 1993, Neogene transfer of central California to the Pacific Plate; implications for evolution of the San Andreas transform: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 74 no. 43, pp. 586–586.

McCrory, P.A., Wilson, D.S., Ingle, J.C., Jr., Stanley, R.G., Dumont, M.P., and Barron, J.A., 1995, Neogene geohistory analysis of Santa Maria Basin, California, and its relationship to transfer of Central California to the Pacific Plate. Diatom biochronology of the Sisquoc Formation in the Santa Maria Basin, California, and its paleoceanographic and tectonic implications: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1995-J,K, 55 p.

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.

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