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Field Activity Details for field activity P167EG

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AKA: none

Other ID: P-1-67-EG

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Earthquake Hazards Project (MU090)

Principal Investigator(s): Gene Rusnak

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Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Sediment Properties, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sparker, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To obtain evidence from bathymetry, subbottom profiling, sediment distribution, and related features around the Prince William Sound area which could be ascribed to the causes and the results of the devastation on the earthquake-affected shores and seafloors following the 27 March 1964 Earthquake.

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Start Date: 1967-05-15

End Date: 1967-06-04

Equipment Used: gravitycore, Shipekgrab, Dill-Moorevaneshear, Sonoprobe, sparker, navigation, bathymetry

Information to be Derived: High energy subbottom profiling, sediment sampling, bathymetry.

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Gene Rusnak (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Eastern Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 55.67233 South: 55.58167 West: -132.012 East: -131.8825

Platform(s):

photo of Polaris I
Polaris I

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
gravitycore --- Geology
Shipekgrab --- Geology
Station log
Station Information
Dill-Moorevaneshear --- Sediment Properties
Sonoprobe --- Sediment Properties
sparker --- Sparker
navigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data p-1-67-eg.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data p-1-67-eg.051 (Provisional best file)
bathymetry --- Single Beam

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