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Field Activity Details for field activity M170SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: M-1-70-SC,CATBAS

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): Bill Normark

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

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Start Date: 1970-01-31

End Date: 1970-02-02

Equipment Used: dredge, gravitycore

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Bill Normark (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 34.75 South: 32.25 West: -122.75 East: -116.75

Platform(s):

photo of Melville
Melville

Publications

Normark, W.R., 1974, Submarine canyons and fan valleys; factors affecting growth patterns of deep-sea fans, Modern and Ancient Geosynclinal Sedimentation; Submarine canyon and fan deposits: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, v. 19, pp. 56–68.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1972, Sediments and growth pattern of Navy Deep-Sea Fan, San Clemente Basin, California borderland: Journal of Geology, v. 80 no. 2, pp. 198–223.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1972, Sediments and growth pattern of Navy deep-sea fan, San Clemente Basin, California borderland: San Diego, University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, v. 42, part 2, no. 80, Contributions, pp. 1094–1119.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
dredge --- Geology
gravitycore --- Geology

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