AKA: none
Other ID: L-7-82-SP,SI82
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Ministry of Lands, Survey, and Natural Resources of the Solomon Islands
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Jack Vedder
Affiliate Investigator(s): Don Tiffin
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: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geology and resources of the Solomon Islands region of the South Pacific.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Honiara, Guadalcanal
End Port/Location: Rabaul, New Britian
Start Date: 1982-05-19
End Date: 1982-06-11
Equipment Used: courserecorder, 3.5khz, 12khz, gravity, integratednavigation, LoranC, transitsatellite, chaindredge, uniboom, 24channel, airgun, sonobuoy, magnetics, gravitycore
Information to be Derived: Seismic reflection profiles, bathymetry, gravity, lithology.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Approximately 3,500 km of 24-channel seismic-reflection profiles in the Solomon Islands region of the South Pacific. The seismic energy source consisted of a tuned array of five airguns with a total volume of 1,313 cu. in. of air compressed to approximately 1,900 psi. The recording system consisted of a 24-channel, 2400-m long streamer with a group interval of 100 m, and a GUS (Global Universal Science) model 4200 digital recording instrument. Shots were fired every 50 m with 100-m group intervals. Navigational control for the survey was provided by a Magnavox-integrated navigation system using transit satellites and Doppler sonar. A 2-msec sampling rate was used in the field and the data were later desampled to 4 msec during the demultiplexing process. A 10-sec data length was recorded, which, combined with a deep-water delay, yielded up to 16 sec of two-way travel time. The sequence of processing of data was editing-demultiplexing, velocity analysis, CDP stacking, deconvolution-filtering, and plotting on an electrostatic plotter.
Staff: Larry Beyer, Donna Blackman, Terry Bruns, Guy Cochrane, Alan Cooper, Frank Coulson, Aaron Dunwald, Dave Hogg, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Kooker, Mike Marlow, Kevin O'Toole, Vern Pilgrim, Paul Wenberg
Affiliate Staff:
Alfred H. Hosebag - Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Greg Lewis - Navigator
Jim Colwell - Geologist
Loren Kroenke - Geophysicist
Ray Wood - Geophysicist
Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-7-82-sp.053, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 5350 kilometers. Australia-New Zealand-United States Tripartite Agreement of 1982.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Alan Cooper - Geophysicist
Alfred H. Hosebag - Watchstander
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Don Tiffin - Chief Scientist
Donna Blackman - Watchstander
Frank Coulson - Geologist
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Greg Lewis - Navigator
Guy Cochrane - Watchstander
Jack Vedder - Chief Scientist
Jim Colwell - Geologist
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Kevin O'Toole - Mechanical Technician
Larry Beyer - Navigator
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Loren Kroenke - Geophysicist
Mike Marlow - Geophysicist
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Ray Wood - Geophysicist
Terry Bruns - Geophysicist
Vern Pilgrim - Ship Captain
Location:
Solomon Islands
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: -4.20052 | South: -10.18645 | West: 152.163 | East: 160.94296 |
Platform(s):
.jpg) Samuel Phillips Lee |
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Bruns, T.R., Vedder, J.G., Hart, P.E., and Mann, D.M., 1989, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles across the Solomon Islands arc; Guadalcanal-Malaita, Vella Lavella-Choiseul, and Bougainville-Buka regions: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 12, pp. 323–328.
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Vedder, J.G., and Colwell, J.B., 1989, Introduction to the geology and offshore resources of the central and western Solomon Islands and eastern Papua New Guinea: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 12, pp. 1–6.
Vedder, J.G., Colwell, J.B., Bruns, T.R., and Cooper, A.K., 1986, Regional offshore geology of central and western Solomon Islands and Bougainville, Papua New Guinea: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 70 no. 7, pp. 937–938.
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Vedder, J.G., Tiffin, D.L., and Colwell, J.B., 1984, Geology, tectonic evolution and petroleum potential of the central Solomons Basin; results of recent tripartite cruises: , Geological Society of Australia Abstracts. , pp. 523–524.
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Vedder, J.G., Tiffin, D.L., Kroenke, L.W., Colwell, J.B., and Cooper, A.K., 1982, Preliminary reports of Leg 3 Lee Cruise, Solomon Islands, in Wilson, Stuart T., ed., Transactions of the Third Circum-Pacific energy and mineral resources conference: , Transactions of the Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference. , pp. 645–648.
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.
Wong, F.L., and Greene, H. Gary, 1984, Hydrocarbon- and mineral-resource investigations in the Southwest Pacific, in Clarke, Samuel H., ed., U.S. Geological Survey highlights in marine research: U. S. Geological Survey Circular 0938, pp. 37–48.
FAN L782SP 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=L782SP.
