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Field Activity Details for field activity L581NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-5-81-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Sam Clarke, Michael Field, Holly Wagner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Eureka, CA and Crescent City, CA

End Port/Location: Crescent City, CA and Newport, OR

Start Date: 1981-05-20

End Date: 1981-05-29

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, 24channel, airgun, sonobuoy, uniboom, sidescansonar, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, miniranger, transitsatellite, gravitycore, airgunmonitor, magnetics, gravity

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Brian Edwards, Joe Edwards, Jim Gardner, Bob Hall, Carol Hirozawa, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Kooker, Keith Kvenvolden, Carol Madison, Dave Melendrez, Terry Ruff, Jim Saltzgaber, Greg Smith, Gordon Tanner

Affiliate Staff:
Anne Jennings - Geologist
Gordon Goodfellow - Geologist
Paul Weinberg - Mechanical Technician
Ross Voorhees - Geologist
Teruki Miyazaki - Geologist
Tim Vogel - Geochemist

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Anne Jennings - Geologist
Bob Hall - Geologist
Brian Edwards - Geologist
Carol Hirozawa - Navigator
Carol Madison - Navigator
Dave Melendrez - Chief Mate
Gordon Goodfellow - Geologist
Gordon Tanner - Electronics Technician
Greg Smith - Geologist
Holly Wagner - Chief Scientist
Jim Gardner - Geologist
Jim Saltzgaber - Chief Engineer
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Keith Kvenvolden - Geochemist
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Mike Field - Chief Scientist
Paul Weinberg - Mechanical Technician
Ross Voorhees - Geologist
Sam Clarke - Chief Scientist
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain
Teruki Miyazaki - Geologist
Tim Vogel - Geochemist

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 44.89112 South: 40.72089 West: -125.353 East: -124.12861

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Clark, S.H., Jr., and McClellan, P.H., 1989, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in May 1981, between latitudes 40o 40â and 45o 00â North, offshore of Northern California and Southern Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-222, 5 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0222/report.pdf.

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 L581NC 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=L581NC.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-5-81-nc.301
Edited bathymetry data l-5-81-nc.330
Edited bathymetry data l-5-81-nc.330_054 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-81-nc.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-81-nc.421_054 (Provisional best file)
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
seismic (data on FAD)
Scan l-5-81-nc.full.1.tif
Scan l-5-81-nc.full.2.tif
Survey information
Scan l-5-81-nc.small.2.tif
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-81-nc.421
Scan l-5-81-nc.small.1.tif
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
field logs (data on FAD)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-81-nc.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-81-nc.052
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-81-nc.054 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-81-nc.054_degree
Lines
Tape list
Survey information
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Position update data l-5-81-nc.020
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-81-nc.051
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
miniranger --- Navigation
Raw Miniranger data l-5-81-nc.620
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-5-81-nc.000
Survey information
gravitycore --- Geology
Station Information
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Edited magnetics data l-5-81-nc.221_054 (Provisional best file)
Edited magnetics data l-5-81-nc.220_054
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-5-81-nc.200
Edited magnetics data l-5-81-nc.220
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-5-81-nc.111
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-5-81-nc.111_054 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity

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