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Field Activity Details for field activity L784SP

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-7-84-SP

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Mike Marlow

Affiliate Investigator(s): Neville Exon (BMR)

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:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kieta, Bougainville

End Port/Location: Rabaul, New Britain, PN

Start Date: 1984-06-29

End Date: 1984-07-16

Equipment Used: 12khz, uniboom, airgun, 24channel, sonobuoy, airgunmonitor, magnetics, gravity, gravitycore, chaindredge, pipedredge, integratednavigation, 3.5khz

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Paul Carlson, Jonathan Childs, Ray Culotta, Dave Hogg, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Kooker, Keith Kvenvolden, Carol Madison, Al McClenaghan, Chris Poppe, Holly Ryan, Jeff Stampfer, Hal Williams

Affiliate Staff:
Charles Hall - Chief Engineer
Dennis Belford (BMR) - Geologist
Don Tiffin (CCOP/SOPAC) - Geologist
Ed Frankel (Queensland) - Geologist

Notes: Based on data in best navigation file, l-7-84-sp.072, cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 4460 kilometers.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Carol Madison - Navigator
Charles Hall - Chief Engineer
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Dennis Belford (BMR) - Geologist
Don Tiffin (CCOP/SOPAC) - Geologist
Ed Frankel (Queensland) - Geologist
Hal Williams - Mechanical Technician
Holly Ryan - Geophysicist
Jeff Stampfer - Mechanical Technician
Jon Childs - Geophysicist
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Keith Kvenvolden - Geochemist
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Mike Marlow - Chief Scientist
Neville Exon (BMR) - Chief Scientist
Paul Carlson - Geologist
Ray Culotta - Geophysicist
Shawn Dadisman - Navigator

Location:

Southern Pacific

Boundaries
North: -0.3738 South: -6.21807 West: 145.928 East: 155.67824

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Carlson, P.R., Rearic, Douglas M., and Quinterno, P.J., 1988, Sedimentology and morphology of the insular slope; New Ireland to Manus Islands, Papua New Guinea, in Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; New Ireland and Manus region, Papua New Guinea: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Serie, v. 9, pp. 47–63.

Chase, T.E., Seekins, B.A., Young, J.D., and Dadisman, S.V., 1988, Submarine topography of Northeastern Papua New Guinea: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 9, pp. 265–271, URL: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70137835.

Childs, J.R., and Marlow, M.S., 1988, Geophysical data near Manus and New Ireland islands, Papua New Guinea, in Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; New Ireland and Manus region, Papua New Guinea: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 9, pp. 273–288.

Dadisman, S.V., Marlow, M.S., 1988, Geophysical study of a magma chamber near Mussau Island, Papua New Guinea: In: Marlow, M.S., Dadisman, S.V., Exon, N.F. (Eds.). Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs - New Ireland and Manus regions, Papua New Guinea; Earth Science Series, vol. 9, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Houston, TX, pp. 211–219.

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.

Kvenvolden, K.A., 1988, Hydrocarbon gas in bottom sediment from offshore the northern islands of Papua New Guinea, in Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs; New Ireland and Manus region, Papua New Guinea: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 9, pp. 157–160.

Kvenvolden, K.A., 1988, Hydrocarbon gas in sediment of the southern Pacific Ocean: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 8 no. 3, pp. 179–187.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Golan-Bac, Margaret, and Rapp, J.B., 1984, Hydrocarbon gases in sediments of the South Pacific Ocean, in AGU 1984 fall meeting: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 65 no. 45, pp. 949–949.

Marlow, M.S., Exon, N.F., Dadisman, S.V., 1992, Hydrocarbon potential and gold mineralization in the New Ireland Basin, Papua New Guinea; Memoir 53: In: Walkins, J.S., Zhiqiang, F., McMillen, K.J. (Eds.). Geology and geophysics of continental margins, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, OK, pp. 119–137.

Marlow, M.S., Exon, N.F., Ryan, H.F., Dadisman, S.V., 1988, Offshore structure and stratigraphy of New Ireland Basin in northern Papua New Guinea: In: Marlow, M.S., Dadisman, S.V., Exon, N.F. (Eds.). Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcs -- New Ireland and Manus regions, Papua New Guinea; Earth Science Series, vol. 9, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Houston, TX, pp. 137–155.

Marlow, M.S., Ryan, H.F., Childs, J.R., Dadisman, S.V., Exon, N.F., 1989, Geophysical data collected in 1984 by the R/V S.P. Lee in the Manus and New Ireland regions of Papua New Guinea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-457, 4 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr89457.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
12khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data l-7-84-sp.335_072 (Provisional best file)
Edited bathymetry data l-7-84-sp.335
Survey information
Edited bathymetry data l-7-84-sp.330
Tape list
uniboom --- Boomer
Station Informationu
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
seismic (data on FAD)
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Edited magnetics data l-7-84-sp.220_072 (Provisional best file)
Raw magnetics data l-7-84-sp.200_072
Raw magnetics data l-7-84-sp.200
gravity --- Gravity
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-7-84-sp.154_072 (Provisional best file)
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-7-84-sp.111
Gravity land tie data l-7-84-sp.140
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-7-84-sp.154
Free Air Anomaly data l-7-84-sp.162
Free Air Anomaly data l-7-84-sp.164
Survey information
Land tie
Free Air Anomaly data l-7-84-sp.161
gravitycore --- Geology
Station Information
chaindredge --- Geology
Station Information
pipedredge --- Geology
Station Information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Position update data l-7-84-sp.020
Satellite data l-7-84-sp.000
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-7-84-sp.071
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-7-84-sp.072 (Provisional best file)
Tape list
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-7-84-sp.072_degree
Lines
field logs (data on FAD)
Position update data l-7-84-sp.021
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-7-84-sp.055
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information

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