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Field Activity Details for field activity M365EG

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AKA: none

Other ID: M-3-65-EG,SHOOT_2

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Earthquake Hazards Project (MU090)

Principal Investigator(s): Gene Rusnak

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Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Sampling: Geology, Environmental Data: Sediment Properties, Seismics: Sparker

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To obtain evidence from bathymetry, subbottom profiling, sediment distribution, and related features around the Prince William Sound area which could be ascribed to the causes and the results of the devastation on the earthquake-affected shores and seafloors following the 27 March 1964 Earthquake.

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Start Date: 1965-09-05

End Date: 1965-09-07

Equipment Used: bathymetry, gravitycore, Shipekgrab, Dill-Moorevaneshear, Sonoprobe, sparker

Information to be Derived: High energy subbottom profiling, sediment sampling, bathymetry.

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Gene Rusnak (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Eastern Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 61.75 South: 57.25 West: -144 East: -132

Platform(s):

photo of Don J. Miller II
Don J. Miller II

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
bathymetry --- Single Beam
gravitycore --- Geology
Shipekgrab --- Geology
Dill-Moorevaneshear --- Sediment Properties
Sonoprobe --- Sediment Properties
sparker --- Sparker

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