AKA: none
Other ID: L-7-83-SP
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Monty Hampton
Affiliate Investigator(s): Keith Lewis (NZOI)
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: Survey low-angled slope failure off Hawke Bay, and determine nature of the curst beneath Hikurangi Trough. Collect bathymetric, gravity and magnetic data.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Wellington, New Zealand
End Port/Location: Lyttelton, New Zealand
Start Date: 1983-12-28
End Date: 1984-01-03
Equipment Used: 12khz, airgun, sidescansonar, 24channel, sonobuoy, airgunmonitor, gravitycore, integratednavigation, 3.5khz, magnetics, gravity, uniboom
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: multichannel seismic data recorded along a 275 km long profile across the convergent plate boundary forming the eastern continental margin of North Island. Over 5000 shots were recorded.
Staff: Edwin Arron, Richard Beetham, Barb Blubaugh, Aaron Dunwald, Susan Dunwald, Kris Johnson, Keith Kvenvolden, Al McClenaghan, Gerry O'Brien, Chris Poppe, Rick Viall, Hal Williams, Jonathan Childs
Affiliate Staff:
Duane Gibson - Geologist
Fred Davey - Geophysicist
Jarg Pettinga (CU NZ) - Geologist
June Cahill (NZGS) - Watchstander
Marge Golan (Navigator) - Bac
Steve Wilson (Magnavox) - Electronics Technician
Terry Pile (Magnavox) - Geologist
Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-7-83-sp.054, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 1480 kilometers.
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Barb Blubaugh - Navigator
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Duane Gibson - Geologist
Edwin Arron (NZOI) - Geologist
Fred Davey - Geophysicist
Hal Williams - Mechanical Technician
Jarg Pettinga (CU NZ) - Geologist
Gerry O'Brien - Mechanical Technician
Jon Childs - Geophysicist
June Cahill (NZGS) - Watchstander
Keith Kvenvolden - Geochemist
Keith Lewis (NZOI) - Chief Scientist
Kris Johnson - Navigator
Marge Golan (Navigator) - Bac
Monty Hampton - Chief Scientist
Richard Beetham - Geologist
Rick Viall - Electronics Technician
Steve Wilson (Magnavox) - Electronics Technician
Susan Dunwald - Unspecified Investigator
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
Terry Pile (Magnavox) - Geologist
Location:
Continental margin off Eastern North Island and Hikurangi Trough, New Zealand
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: -39.63173 | South: -43.60204 | West: 172.747 | East: 179.61952 |
Platform(s):
.jpg) Samuel Phillips Lee |
Davey, F.J., Hampton, M.A., Childs, J.R., Fisher, M.A., Lewis, K., and Pettinga, J.R., 1986, Structure of a growing accretionary prism, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand: Geology, v. 14 no. 8, pp. 663–666.
Davey, F.J., Hampton, M.A., and Lewis, K., 1986, Convergent plate margin east of North Island, New Zealand: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 70 no. 7, pp. 918–919.
Kvenvolden, K.A., and Niem, A.R., 1989, Hydrocarbon gases in sediments of the Solomon Islands area: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 12, pp. 283–286.
Kvenvolden, K.A., Golan-Bac, M., 1987, Methane and other hydrocarbon gases in sediments of the southern Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-0401, 23 p.
Lewis, K.B., Pettinga, J.R., Hampton, M.A., and Davey, Frederick J., 1986, Sedimentary patterns at the Hikurangi Margin accretionary prism, in Sediments down-under; 12th international sedimentological congress: Canberra, Australia, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
Pettinga, J.R., Lewis, Keith B., Hampton, Monty A., and Davey, Fred J., 1984, Preliminary interpretations of near-surface multi-channel seismic data, across the obliquely convergent Hikurangi margin; offshore eastern North Island, in Geological Society of New Zealand annual conference 1984: , programme and abstracts: Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication,.
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.
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.
FAN L783SP 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=L783SP.
