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Field Activity Details for field activity M179NP

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AKA: none

Other ID: M-1-79-NP,Rise_I_Expedition

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): East Pacific Rise (MU091)

Principal Investigator(s): Bill Normark

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Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Transects, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

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Start Date: 1979-04-30

End Date: 1979-04-30

Equipment Used: bottomtransponder, 4khz, 20khz, submersible

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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

Location:

Northern Pacific

Boundaries
North: 34.75 South: -29.75 West: -119.75 East: -65.25

Platform(s):

photo of Melville
Melville

Publications

Spiess, F.N., Macdonald, K.C., Atwater, T., Ballard, R., Carranza, A., Cordoba, D., Cox, C., Diaz Garcia, V.M., Francheteau, J., Guerrero, J., Hawkins, J., Haymon, R., Hessler, R., Juteau, T., Kastner, M., Larson, R., Luyendyk, B., Macdougall, J.D., Miller, S., Normark, W., Orcutt, J., and Rangin, C., 1980, East Pacific Rise; hot springs and geophysical experiments: Science, v. 207 no. 4438, pp. 1421–1433.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
bottomtransponder --- Transects
4khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
20khz --- Single Beam
submersible --- Photo
Video
Biology
Geology

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