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Field Activity Details for field activity O167NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: O-1-67-NC,WILDCAT_I

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Structure of the Continental Margin off Northern California (MU279)

Principal Investigator(s): Eli A. Silver

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Data Type(s): Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Structure of the continental margin off northernmost California was studied by reflection profiling and magnetic profiling, and by extensive bottom sampling.

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Start Date: 1967-08-17

End Date: 1967-08-22

Equipment Used: airgun, magnetics, pipedredge, gravitycore, grab, dredge

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: single-channel airgun and sparker data

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Eli Silver (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Mendocino Fracture

Boundaries
North: 41.75 South: 33.75 West: -129.75 East: -118.25

Platform(s):


Oconostota

Publications

Normark, W.R., 1970, Channel piracy on monterey deep-sea fan: , Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. , pp. 837–846.

Normark, W.R., and Gutmacher, Christina E., 1984, Delgada Fan; preliminary interpretation of channel development: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3 no. 2-4, pp. 79–83.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
magnetics --- Magnetics
pipedredge --- Geology
gravitycore --- Geology
grab --- Geology
dredge --- Geology

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