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Field Activity Details for field activity S476BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-4-76-BS,SEA476BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Tracy Vallier

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kodiak, AK and Dutch Harbor, AK

End Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK and Dutch Harbor, AK

Start Date: 1976-08-03

End Date: 1976-09-14

Equipment Used: sparker, LoranC, transitsatellite, 3.5khz, magnetics, gravity, boxcore, dartcore, gravitycore, pistoncore, Phlegercore, chaindredge, pipedredge, VanVeengrab, sidescansonar, uniboom, airgun, underwatercamera, expendablebatthermograph, tempsalinometer, integratednavigation, dopplersonar

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Roland Brady, John Cudnohufsky, Steve Davenport, Walter Dean, Jim Gardner, Rich Garlow, Harry Hill, Samuel Johnson, Dave Klise, Keith Kvenvolden, Steve Lewis, Al McClenaghan, Kelly Mitchell, Don Phillips, George Redden, Byron Ruppel, Edith Stanley, Andy Stevenson, Gordon Tanner, Mike Underwood

Affiliate Staff:
A. Kaneps (Scripps) - Geologist
Alexis Budai (Scripps) - Watchstander
K. Glikman - Watchstander

Notes: Scanned station descriptions: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/data/0611/06115005/s476bs_descriptions_06115005.pdf

Staff information imported from InfoBank
A. Kaneps (Scripps) - Geologist
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Alexis Budai (Scripps) - Watchstander
Andy Stevenson (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Byron Ruppel (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Don Phillips (USGS Western Region) - Chief Engineer
Dave Klise (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Edith Stanley (UC Davis) - Geologist
George Redden - Watchstander
Gordon Tanner - Electronics Technician
Harry Hill - Electronics Technician
Jim Gardner (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
John Cudnohufsky - Watchstander
K. Glikman - Watchstander
Keith Kvenvolden (USGS Western Region) - Geochemist
Kelly Mitchell - Chief Mate
Mike Underwood - Watchstander
Rich Garlow - Navigator
Roland Brady - Watchstander
Steve Davenport - Watchstander
Sam Johnson (UC Santa Cruz) - Geologist
Steve Lewis (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Tracy Vallier (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Walter Dean - Geochemist

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 57.7912 South: 53.8519 West: -171.684 East: -151.84874

Platform(s):

photo of Sea Sounder
Sea Sounder

Publications

Davis, A.S., Wong, Florence L., Pickthorn, Leda-Beth G., and Marlow, and Michael S., 1987, Petrology, geochemistry, and age of basanitoids dredged from the Bering Sea continental margin west of Navarin Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-0407, 31 p.

Kvenvolden, K.A., and Redden, G.D., 1977, Low molecular weight hydrocarbons in sediments of the southern Bering Shelf: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 449–449.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Redden, G.D., and Carlson, P.R., 1977, Hydrocarbon gases in sediments of eastern Gulf of Alaska: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 61 no. 5, pp. 806–806.

Lee-Wong, F., and Vallier, T.L., 1979, Petrology of alkali basalt from the Pribilof Islands region, southern Bering Sea: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 60 no. 46, pp. 972–972.

Lee-Wong, F., Vallier, T.L., Hopkins, D.M., and Silberman, M.L., 1979, Preliminary report on the petrography and geochemistry of basalt from the Pribilof Islands and vicinity, southern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1556, 53 p.

Simpson, G.L., Vallier, Tracy L., Pearl, James E., and Lee-Wong, Florence, 1979, Potassium-argon ages and geochemistry of basalt dredged near Saint George Island, southern Bearing Sea: U. S. Geological Survey Circular 0804-B, B134-B135 p.

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.

Vallier, T.L. and G., J.V., 1977, Maps showing types and distribution of faults interpreted from seismic profiles in the St. George Basin, southern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-591, 13 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr77591.

Wong, F.L., Vallier, T.L., Underwood, M.B., Gardner, J.V., and Jones, D.L., 1980, Petrology of rocks from the Pribilof Islands region, southern Bering Sea shelf: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1175, pp. 162–163.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sparker --- Sparker
LoranC --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Edited bathymetry data s-4-76-bs.335
Edited bathymetry data s-4-76-bs.335_010 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data s-4-76-bs.200
Raw magnetics data s-4-76-bs.200_010
Edited magnetics data s-4-76-bs.220_010 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
gravity --- Gravity
Gravity land tie data s-4-76-bs.140
Free Air Anomaly data s-4-76-bs.165
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
Free Air Anomaly data s-4-76-bs.165_010 (Provisional best file)
Free Air Anomaly data s-4-76-bs.161
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
Station Information
dartcore --- Geology
Station Information
gravitycore --- Geology
g002
g004
g005
g008
g010
g011
g016
g019
g020
g027
g028
g030
g032
g033
g036
g037
g038
g039
g040
g041
g043
g046
g048
g049
g051
g052
g054
g056
g057
g059
g063
g065
g067
g069
g071
g074
g075
g077
g079
g080
g060
g062
g085
g089
g090
g094
g082
g084
g102
g103
g111
g113
g116
g118
g119
g121
g122
g109
Station Information
g013
g105
g081
g107
Station log
pistoncore --- Geology
p003
p005
p006
p007
p008
p010
p011
p013
Station Information
Phlegercore --- Geology
chaindredge --- Geology
Station Information
pipedredge --- Geology
VanVeengrab --- Geology
v02
v03
v04
v05
v07
v09
v11
v12
v13
v14
v15
v16
v17
v18
v19
v20
v21
v22
v23
v24
v25
v26
v29
Station Information
v28
v06
v10
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
underwatercamera --- Photo
Station Information
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
Station Information
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature
Station Information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Dead reckoning data s-4-76-bs.010 (Provisional best file)
Dead reckoning data s-4-76-bs.010_degree
Lines
Survey information
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
dopplersonar --- Navigation

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