AKA: none
Other ID: S-15-79-NC,SF79
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Bill Normark
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sparker
Scientific Purpose/Goals:
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Redwood City, CA and Monterey, CA
End Port/Location: Monterey, CA and Redwood City, CA
Start Date: 1979-11-26
End Date: 1979-12-11
Equipment Used: 12khz, 3.5khz, integratednavigation, LoranC, miniranger, transitsatellite, boomerangcore, gravitycore, pistoncore, freefallgrab, airgun, sparker
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Andy Stevenson, Charles Bray, Chris Gutmacher, Chuck Levine, Gordon Hess, Gordon Tanner, Jane Cribari, John Oldson, Jon Erickson, Kevin O'Toole, Michael Boyle, Pat Wilde, Paul Wenberg, Scott Conard, Sue Demarinis, Tom Chase, Tony Jones
Affiliate Staff:
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain
Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Andy Stevenson (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Bill Normark (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Charles Bray (USGS Western Region) - Chief Mate
Chris Gutmacher (USGS Western Region) - Dafe Curator
Chuck Levine (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain
Gordon Hess (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Gordon Tanner (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Jane Cribari (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
John Oldson (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Jon Erickson (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Kevin O'Toole (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Mike Boyle (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Pat Wilde (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Paul Wenberg (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Scott Conard (USGS Western Region) - Chief Engineer
Sue Demarinis (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Tom Chase (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Tony Jones (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Location:
Northern California
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 39.56965 | South: 34.88384 | West: -126.2568 | East: -121.88902 |
Platform(s):
 Sea Sounder |
Brunner, C.A., and Normark, William R., 1982, A quantitative index of mixing to determine the relative amount of downslope contamination in subsurface sediments of a submarine fan, in Braunstein, Jules, and Thomson, A.F., chairperson, 95th annual meeting: , The Geological Society of America: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 453–454.
Brunner, C.A., and Normark, William R., 1985, Biostratigraphic implications for the turbidite depositional processes on the Monterey deep-sea fan, Central California: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 55 no. 4, pp. 495–505.
Brunner, C.A., and Normark, William R., 1983, Taphonomy of microfossils in turbidites of the Monterey and Delgada submarine fans: , Geological Society of America, 96th annual meeting: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 534–534.
Field, M.A., Kvenvolden, K., and Clarke, S.H., Jr., 1979, Location and hydrocarbon content of a gravity core from the offshore Eel River basin, northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1618, 2 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr791618.
Fildani, A., Normark, W.R., 2004, Late Quaternary evolution of channel and lobe complexes of Monterey Fan: Marine Geology, v. 206 no. 1-4, pp. 199–223, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.03.001.
Gutmacher, C.E., and Normark, W.R., 1993, Sur submarine landslide, a deep-water sediment slope failure, in Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., Twichell, D.C., eds., Submarine landslides; selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2002, pp. 158–166.
Hess, G.R., and Normark, W.R., 1980, Quaternary styles of California submarine fans: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 64 no. 3, pp. 443–444.
Hess, G.R., Normark, W.R., and Gutmacher, C.E., 1979, Sur submarine slide, Monterey Fan, central California: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 83–84.
Normark, W.R., and Gutmacher, Christina E., 1984, Delgada Fan; preliminary interpretation of channel development: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3 no. 2-4, pp. 79–83.
Normark, W.R., and Gutmacher, Christina E., 1989, Major submarine fans of the California continental rise, Winterer, E.L., and Hussong, Donald M., and Decker, Robert W., eds., The eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii: Geological Society of America, Denver, CO.
Normark, W.R., and Gutmacher, Christina E., 1988, Sur submarine slide, Monterey Fan, Central California: Sedimentology, v. 35 no. 4, pp. 629–647.
Normark, W.R., and Hess, Gordon R., 1980, Quaternary growth patterns of California submarine fans, in Field, Michael E., Bouma, Arnold H., Colburn, Ivan P., Douglas, Robert G., and Ingle, James C., eds., Proceedings of the Quaternary depositional environments of the Pacific Coast: Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium, no. 4, pp. 201–210.
Normark, W.R., Gutmacher, Christina E., Chase, T.E., Wilde, Pat, 1984, Monterey Fan; growth pattern control by basin morphology and changing sea levels: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3 no. 2-4, pp. 93–99.
Steele, W.C., Degnan, C.H., Deeter, G.B., and Riordan, J.A., 1989, Description of marine geophysical data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and how to obtain it: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-167, 26 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr89167.
Wilde, P., Normark, William R., Chase, Thomas E., and Gutmacher, Christina E., 1985, Potential petroleum reservoirs on deep-sea fans off Central California, in Bouma, Arnold H., Normark, William R., and Barnes, Neal E., eds., Submarine fans and related turbidite systems: Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
