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Field Activity Details for field activity R187AN

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AKA: none

Other ID: R-1-87-AN

Status: Completed

Organization(s): Texas A&M University, Technical University of Denmark, Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, La Jolla, Ca, USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Ocean Drilling Program (MU216)

Principal Investigator(s): John Barron

Affiliate Investigator(s): Birger Larsen (Technical University Of Denmark),Jack Baldauf (Texas A&M University)

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bathymetric and seismic reflection investigation.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Pt. Louis, Mauritius

End Port/Location: Prydz Bay, Antarctica

Start Date: 1987-12-19

End Date: 1987-12-29

Equipment Used: 12khz, seismic, magnetometer, navigation, 3.5khz

Information to be Derived: Bathymetric and seismic reflection profiles.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 6568 miles of seismic data.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, ODP leg 119 see also R188AN. This cruise broken into R187AN and R188AN

Staff information imported from InfoBank
John Barron (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Birger Larsen (Technical University Of Denmark) - Chief Scientist
Jack Baldauf (Texas A&M University) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Antarctica

Boundaries
North: -22.32399 South: -50.27161 West: 57.679 East: 73.09183

Platform(s):

photo of Joides Resolution
Joides Resolution

Publications

Kvenvolden, K.A., Hostettler, Frances D., Rapp, John B., and Frank, Tamara J., 1990, Aliphatic hydrocarbons in sediments from Prydz Bay, Antarctica, in Stewart, Sondra, ed., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Peru continental margin; covering Leg 112 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution, Callao, Peru to Valparaiso, Chile, sites 679-688, 20 October 1986-25 December 1986: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 112, pp. 417–424.

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