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Field Activity Details for field activity L580AA

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-5-80-AA

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): David Scholl

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jill McCarthy

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kodiak, AK

End Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK

Start Date: 1980-06-23

End Date: 1980-07-05

Equipment Used: airgun, sonobuoy, 3.5khz, 12khz, gravity, magnetics, bathgravnav, chaindredge, integratednavigation, deadreckoning, dopplersonar, RhoRho, transitsatellite, 24channel, airgunmonitor

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Aaron Dunwald, Andy Stevenson, Chris Gutmacher, Dennis Mann, Guy Cochrane, Harry Hill, Jackie Eaby, Jill McCarthy, Joe Edwards, Margaret Goud, Merid Dates, Paul Wenberg, Roy Fields, Tracy Vallier

Affiliate Staff:
Chris Gibson - Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Jon Greenberg - Watchstander
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Andy Stevenson - Geologist
Chris Gibson - Watchstander
Chris Gutmacher - Watchstander
Dave Scholl - Chief Scientist
Dennis Mann - Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Guy Cochrane - Navigator
Harry Hill - Electronics Technician
Jackie Eaby - Navigator
Jill McCarthy - Dafe Curator
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
Jon Greenberg - Watchstander
Margaret Goud - Navigator
Merid Dates - Watchstander
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain
Roy Fields - Electronics Technician
Tracy Vallier - Geophysicist

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 57.78194 South: 50.48417 West: -175.0097 East: -152.03867

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Harbert, W., Scholl, D.W., Vallier, T.L., Stevenson, A.J., and Mann, D.M., 1986, Major evolutionary phases of a forearc basin of the Aleutian Terrace; relation to North Pacific tectonic events and the formation of the Aleutian subduction complex: Geology, v. 14 no. 9, pp. 757–761.

Harbert, W.P., Scholl, D.W., Mann, D., Vallier, T.L., and Stevenson, A.J., 1982, Geologic and tectonic history of Atka Basin, Aleutian Ridge, in American Geophysical Union 1982 fall meeting: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 63 no. 45, pp. 1115–1115.

Mann, D.M., Scholl, D.W., and Sliter, R.W., 1989, Multichannel seismic-reflection data collected in 1980 across the Aleutian Arc and Trench, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-0202, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0202/.

McCarthy, J., Scholl, D.W., Mann, D., Vallier, T.L., and Stevenson, A.J., 1982, Mechanisms of accretion along the Aleutian Trench, in American Geophysical Union 1982 fall meeting: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 63 no. 45, pp. 1115–1115.

McCarthy, J., 1987, Seismic reflection imaging of plate boundaries; examples from the central Aleutians, the North Atlantic, and the Basin and Range Province of the Western U.S: Stanford, CA, Stanford University Ph. D. Dissertation.

McCarthy, J., and Scholl, David W., 1985, Mechanisms of subduction accretion along the central Aleutian Trench: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96 no. 6, pp. 691–701.

McCarthy, J., Scholl, David W., and Sleep, Norman H.,, 1983, Accretionary structures along the central Aleutian Trench: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 64 no. 45, pp. 870–870.

McCarthy, J., Stevenson, Andrew J., Scholl, David W., and Vallier, Tracy L., 1984, Speculations on the petroleum geology of the accretionary body; an example from the central Aleutians: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 1 no. 2, pp. 151–167.

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

FAN L580AA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=L580AA.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
sonobuoy (data on FAD)
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Sediment thickness data l-5-80-aa.340
Sediment thickness data l-5-80-aa.345
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data l-5-80-aa.335
Edited bathymetry data l-5-80-aa.336
Undefined l-5-80-aa.390
Survey information
Edited bathymetry data l-5-80-aa.336_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-5-80-aa.111
Gravity land tie data l-5-80-aa.140
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-5-80-aa.151
Free Air Anomaly data l-5-80-aa.161
Survey information
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-5-80-aa.151_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-5-80-aa.200
Raw magnetics data l-5-80-aa.200_052
Edited magnetics data l-5-80-aa.220_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
bathgravnav --- Gravity
Navigation
Single Beam
chaindredge --- Geology
dr2
Station Information
dr1
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data l-5-80-aa.011
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-80-aa.052 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-80-aa.052_degree
Lines
Tape list
Survey information
field logs (data on FAD)
deadreckoning --- Navigation
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-5-80-aa.003
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-80-aa.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-80-aa.421
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-80-aa.422
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-80-aa.422_052 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
Scan l-5-80-aa.full.tif
Scan l-5-80-aa.small.tif
Image l-5-80-aa.thumb.jpg
seismic (data on FAD)
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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