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Field Activity Details for field activity O169MX

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AKA: none

Other ID: O-1-69-MX

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Baja (MU015)

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Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Sampling: Geology

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Start Date: 1969-02-07

End Date: 1969-02-17

Equipment Used: 12khz, airgun, core

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Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Bill Normark

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Bill Normark (USGS Western Region) - Scientist

Location:

Mexico

Boundaries
North: 32.75 South: 15.25 West: -117.75 East: -98.25

Platform(s):


Oconostota

Publications

Blake, M.C., Jr., Campbell, R.H., Dibblee, T.W., Jr., Howell, D.G., Nilsen, T.H., Normark, W.R., Vedder, J.G., and Silver, E.A., 1978, Neogene basin formation in relation to plate tectonic evolution of San Andreas fault system, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 62 no. 3, pp. 344–372.

Normark, W.R., 1977, Neogene basins and transform motion within the Pacific continental margin of Baja California: Offshore Technology Conference, v. 9 no. 3, pp. 93–100.

Normark, W.R., 1971, Transfer of lower Baja California, Mexico, from North American to Pacific lithospheric plates: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 172–172.

Normark, W.R., Allison, E.C., and Curray, J.R., 1969, The geology of the Pacific continental margin of the peninsula of Baja California: , Geological Society of America Abstracts, Annual Meeting. pp. 163–163.

Normark, W.R., and Spencer, J.E., 1980, The Baja miniplate and San Benitos sliver, Mexico: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 145–145.

Normark, W.R., Spencer, J.E., and Ingle, J.C., Jr., 1987, Geology and Neogene history of the Pacific continental margin of Baja California Sur, Mexico: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6, pp. 449–472.

Normark, W.R., 1974, Ranger Submarine Slide, Northern Sebastian Vizcaino Bay, Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin,, v. 85 no. 5, pp. 781–784.

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.

Spencer, J.E., and Normark, W.R., 1979, The Neogene Tosco-Abreojos strike-slip fault within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, Mexico: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 129–129.

Spencer, J.E., and Normark, W.R., 1979, Tosco-Abreojos fault zone; a Neogene transform plate boundary within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, Mexico: Geology, v. 7 no. 11, pp. 554–557.

Spencer, J.E., and Normark, William R., 1989, Neogene plate-tectonic evolution of the Baja California Sur continental margin and the southern Gulf of California, Mexico, Winterer, E.L., and Hussong, Donald M., and Decker, Robert W., eds., The eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii: Denver, CO, Geological Society of America.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
12khz --- Single Beam
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
core --- Biology
Geology

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