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Field Activity Details for field activity M181NP

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AKA: none

Other ID: M-1-81-NP,Pluto_Expedition_1

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, La Jolla, Ca

Funding Program(s): Deep Sea Drilling Project (MU082)

Principal Investigator(s): Roland VonHuene

Affiliate Investigator(s): Peter Lonsdale (Scripps),Gregory Moore (Scripps)

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Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Location-Elevation: Transects

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Start Date: 1981-09-01

End Date: 1981-09-30

Equipment Used: echosounder, subbottomprofiler, sidescansonar, bottomtransponder

Information to be Derived: Bathymetry and seismic profiles

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Peter Lonsdale (Scripps) - Chief Scientist
Roland Von Huene (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Gregory Moore (Scripps) - Chief Scientist
Arsenault (Melville) - Ship Captain

Location:

off Guatemala

Boundaries
North: 32.75 South: 6.25 West: -119.75 East: -75.25

Platform(s):

photo of Melville
Melville

Publications

Kurnosov, V.B., Murdmaa, I.O., Kazakova, V., Mikhina, V., and Shevchenko, A.Y., 1982, Mineralogy of sediments from the Middle America Trench (Guatemala transect), in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 67 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Manzanillo, Mexico to Puntarenas, Costa Rica: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 67, pp. 515–528.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
echosounder --- Single Beam
subbottomprofiler --- Sub Bottom Profiler
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
bottomtransponder --- Transects

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