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Field Activity Details for field activity O668SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: O-6-68-SC,CHANEEL_6

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): California Continental Margin (MU028)

Principal Investigator(s): Eli A. Silver

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Data Type(s): Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

Scientific Purpose/Goals: test run

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Start Date: 1968-09-26

End Date: 1968-09-27

Equipment Used: airgun

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

Location:

San Diego Trough

Boundaries
North: 34.75 South: 32.25 West: -122.75 East: -116.75

Platform(s):


Oconostota

Publications

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., 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.

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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