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Field Activity Details for field activity N809WP

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AKA: NT09-08

Other ID: N-8-09-WP

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Pacific EEZ Minerals (ZP00AZ9)

Principal Investigator(s): James Hein

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): James Hein

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Mineralization and volcanism of the Mariana volcanic arc

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Guam

End Port/Location: Saipan, CNMI

Start Date: 2009-06-09

End Date: 2009-06-23

Equipment Used: navigation, samples, bathymetry

Information to be Derived: Composition and seafloor imagery of arc volcanic rocks and hydrothermal minerals; bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Cruise report available from Hein

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Cruise data at;
http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/darwin/cruise/natsushima/nt09-08/e
MARFAC help not needed; USGS participant included Hein

Location:

Commonwealth Northern Mariana Islands EEZs

Boundaries
North: 59.75 South: -19.75 West: 105.25 East: 179.75

Platform(s):

photo of Natsushima
Natsushima

Publications

Adamczyk, K., Mizell, K., Payan, D., Dominguez, N.O., Oliva, L., and Gartman, A., 2023, Marine mineral geochemical data - Part One: Pacific Ocean USGS-affiliated historical data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GD1JKB.

Hein, J.R., de Ronde, C.E.J., Koski, R.A., Ditchburn, R.G., Mizell, K., Tamura, Y., Stern, R.J., Conrad, T.A., Ishizuka, O., Leybourne, M.I., 2014, Layered Hydrothermal Barite-Sulfide Mound Field, East Diamante Caldera, Mariana Volcanic Arc: Economic Geology, v. 109 no. 8, pp. 2179–2206, doi: 10.2113/econgeo.109.8.2179.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
navigation --- Navigation
samples --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
bathymetry --- Single Beam

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