AKA: none
Other ID: L-5-84-SP,L5VU84
Status: Completed
Organization(s): University of Tasmania, University of New South Wales, New Zealand Geological Survey, USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Gary Greene
Affiliate Investigator(s): Sandy McFarlane (GMRWS VA)
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Imagery: Photo, 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: Port Vila, Vanuatu and Santo and Port Vila, Vanuatu and Santo
End Port/Location: Santo and Honiara, Solomon Islands and Santo and Honiara, Solomon Islands
Start Date: 1984-05-09
End Date: 1984-06-05
Equipment Used: sonobuoy, 12khz, airgun, gravity, 3.5khz, uniboom, magnetics, gravitycore, chaindredge, Soutargrab, 24channel, sidescansonar, underwatercamera, rangerange, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, radar, transitsatellite, airgunmonitor
Information to be Derived: Seismic reflection profiles, gravity, magnetics, bathymetry, side scan, lithology, underwater photographs.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings 2400 km of 24-fold multichannel seismic reflection data were collected along 37 lines. The seismic source consisted of a tuned, 5 airgun array totaling 1426 cubic inches, pressurized to 2000 psi, towed at a depth of approximately 10 meters. Individual gun volumes were usually 148, 194, 309, 309, and 466 cubic inches. The receiver consisted of a 24 channel hydrophone streamer with 100 meter group lengths containing 60 hydrophones in each group. The near channel offset from the airguns was 297 m and far channel offset 2611 m. The data were recorded with a Gus Model HDDR-4200 recording system. Shots were fired every 50 meters and records were sampled in the field at a 2 millisecond rate prior to processing. Primary navigation was by satellite. 2548 nautical miles of bathymetric data and 2225 nautical miles of gravity data were collected.
Staff: Barb Blubaugh, John Dobranski, Roy Fields, Michael Fisher, Carol Hirozawa, Mark Holmes, Al McClenaghan, Jim Nicholson, Kevin O'Toole, Chris Poppe, Thomas Reiss, Greg Smith, Jeff Stampfer, Glen Thrasher, Michael Torresan
Affiliate Staff:
Alan Carter (U Of NSW) - Geologist
Barrie McKelvey (U New E) - Geologist
Charles Petit (S.F. Chronicle) - Unsp Investigatr
David Johnson (James Cook) - Geologist
Gordon Goodfellow - Watchstander
Marge Golan (Geochemist) - Bac
Neville Exon (BMR) - Geologist
Tom Metzger - Unsp Investigatr
Tony Crawford (U Of Tasma) - Geologist
Willie Harrison (GMRWS VA) - Geologist
Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-5-84-sp.071, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 5990 kilometers.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Alan Carter (U Of NSW) - Geologist
Barb Blubaugh - Navigator
Barrie McKelvey (U New E) - Geologist
Carol Hirozawa - Navigator
Charles Petit (S.F. Chronicle) - Unsp Investigatr
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
David Johnson (James Cook) - Geologist
Gary Greene - Chief Scientist
Glen Thrasher (NZGS) - Geologist
Gordon Goodfellow - Watchstander
Greg Smith - Geologist
Jean (Geophysicist, Orstom) - Yves Collot
Jeff Stampfer - Mechanical Technician
Jim Nicholson - Electronics Technician
John Dobranski - Chief Engineer
Kevin O'Toole - Mechanical Technician
Marge Golan (Geochemist) - Bac
Mark Holmes - Geologist
Mike Fisher - Geophysicist
Mike Torresan - Geologist
Neville Exon (BMR) - Geologist
Roy Fields - Electronics Technician
Sandy McFarlane (GMRWS VA) - Chief Scientist
Shawn Dadisman - Navigator
Tom Metzger - Unsp Investigatr
Tom Reiss - Geologist
Tony Crawford (U Of Tasma) - Geologist
Willie Harrison (GMRWS VA) - Geologist
Location:
Southern Pacific
| Boundaries | |||
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| North: -9.38438 | South: -17.75599 | West: 159.9624 | East: 168.93758 |
Platform(s):
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Buchbinder, B., Halley, R.B., 1988, Source rock evaluation of outcrop samples from Vanuatu; Malakula, Espiritu Santo, Maewo, and Pentecost: In: Scholl, D.W., Vallier, T.L. (Eds.). Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs -- Tonga region; Earth Science Series, vol. 2 2, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Houston, TX, pp. 335–349.
Burne, R.V., Collot, Jean-Yves, and Daniel, Jacques, 1988, Superficial structures and stress regimes of the downgoing plate associated with subduction-collision in the Central New Hebrides arc, Vanuatu, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 357–379.
Chase, T.E., and Seekins, B.A., 1988, Submarine topography of the Vanuatu and southeastern Solomon Islands region, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 35–36.
Collot, J.-Y., and Fisher, Michael A., 1988, Crustal structure, from gravity data, of a collision zone in the central New Hebrides island arc, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series 8, pp. 125–139.
Crawford, A.J., Greene, H. Gary., and Exon, Neville F., 1988, Geology, petrology and geochemistry of submarine volcanoes around Epi Island, New Hebrides island arc, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 301–327.
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Fisher, M.A., 1988, Petroleum geology of the central New Hebrides arc, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 279–283.
Fisher, M.A., Falvey, David A., and Smith, Gregory L., 1988, Seismic stratigraphy of the summit basins of the New Hebrides island arc, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum- Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 208–223.
Glikson, M., 1988, Miocene algal reef-derived deposits in Vanuatu possible petroleum source rocks, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 267–274.
Golan-Bac, M., and Kvenvolden, Keith A., 1988, Hydrocarbon gases in surface sediments of the South Aoba Basin, Vanuatu, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 275–278.
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Katz, H.R., 1988, Offshore geology of Vanuatu; previous work, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 93–122.
Louat, R., Hamburger, Michael W., and Monzier, Michel, 1988, Shallow and intermediate-depth seismicity in the New Hebrides arc; constraints on the subduction process, in Greene, H. Gary, and Wong, Florence L., eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; Vanuatu region: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 8, pp. 329–356.
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