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Field Activity Details for field activity P188AR

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AKA: 1988-013-FA

Other ID: PLSTAR-1

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Art Grantz

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Multichannel

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1988-09-02

End Date: 1988-09-28

Equipment Used: Other, multichannel, gravity, GPS, gravitycore, pistoncore, boxcore, dartcore, airgun

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jonathan Childs, Dave Dinter, John Gann, Art Grantz, Patrick Hart, Kevin O'Toole, Larry Phillips, Erk Reimnitz

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: physical data holdings
added equipment type (seismic) 2/14/18
added FAN for analog holdings 9/22/16
staff added from InfoBank; Dave Nichols missing from list

Location:

Arctic

Boundaries
North: 74.49641312 South: 65.47388364 West: -172.79296675 East: -141.77734175

Platform(s):

photo of Polar Star
Polar Star

Publications

Foley, K.M., Poore, R.Z., 1991, Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge Core 5, Arctic Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-346, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr91346.

Foley, K.M., Poore, R.Z., 1993, Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge cores P-1-88-AR P3, P-1-88-AR P7, and P-1-88-AR P9, Arctic Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-218, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr93218.

Phillips, R.L., Grantz, A., and Mullen, M.W., 1990, Preliminary stratigraphy of the piston cores from southeastern Northwind Ridge, Arctic Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-51, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr9051.

Phillips, R.L., Grantz, A., Mullen, M.W., Rieck, H.J., McLaughlin, M.W., and Selkirk, T.L., 1992, Summary of lithostratigraphy and stratigraphic correlations in piston cores from Northwind Ridge, Arctic Ocean, from USCGC Polar Star, 1988: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-426, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr92426.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
multichannel --- Multichannel
interpreted seismic lines (data in holdings)
sono (data on FAD)
stack (data on FAD)
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from digital meter p-1-88-ar.102_058 (provisional best file)
GPS --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data p-1-88-ar.058 (provisional best file)
gravitycore --- Geology
gravitycore (station location)
pistoncore --- Geology
pistoncore_holdings
pistoncore (sample locations)
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
boxcore (station location)
dartcore --- Geology
dartcore (station location)
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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