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Field Activity Details for field activity M470SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: M-4-70-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Bill Normark

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Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

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Start Date: 1970-04-07

End Date: 1970-04-09

Equipment Used: core, 3.5khz

Information to be Derived: Bathymetry profiles.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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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

Bowen, A.J., Normark, William R., and Piper, David J. W., 1984, Modelling of turbidity currents on Navy submarine fan, California continental borderland: Sedimentology,, v. 31 no. 2, pp. 169–185.

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., 1984, Navy Fan, California borderland; growth pattern and depositional processes: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3 no. 2-4, pp. 101–108.

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.

Piper, D.J.W., and Normark, William R., 1983, Turbidite depositional patterns and flow characteristics, Navy submarine fan, California Borderland: Sedimentology, v. 30 no. 5, pp. 681–694.

Smith, D.L., and Normark, W.R., 1976, Deformation and patterns of sedimentation, South San Clemente Basin, California Borderland: Marine Geology, v. 22 no. 3, pp. 175–188.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
core --- Biology
Geology
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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