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Field Activity Details for field activity S165SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-1-65-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Navy, Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, La Jolla, Ca

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Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): E.L. Winterer

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Sparker

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To study, by continuous-reflection profiling, the volumetric distribution and internal structure of sediments deposited in a group of modern continental-margin submarine basins whose physiographic and oceanographic characteristics are relatively well known and who relations to source and other variables differ in marked degree. Thus, the sedimentary fill in the basins (the end products of marine processes of erosion, transportation, and deposition) can be related to the physical variables within the region of the basins and conclusions may be drawn regarding the important factors which have influenced its accumulation.

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Start Date: 1965-10-13

End Date: 1965-10-20

Equipment Used: sparker

Information to be Derived: Seismic reflection profiling.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
E.L. Winterer - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern California

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

Platform(s):

photo of Ellen B Scripps
Ellen B Scripps

Publications

Moore, D.G., 1969, Reflection profiling studies of the California Continental Borderland: Structure and Quaternary Turbidite Basins: Geological Society of American Special Paper 107, 142 p.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sparker --- Sparker
S-1-65-SC_154187_misc_seis (scanned microfilm)

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