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Field Activity Details for field activity S478NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-4-78-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Gary Greene

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Monterey, CA

End Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1978-06-01

End Date: 1978-06-05

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, magnetics, airgunarcer, integratednavigation, RhoRho, miniranger, underwatercamera, chaindredge, sidescansonar, transitsatellite, uniboom

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Glen Barker, Michael Boyle, Dave Clague, Brent Dalrymple, John Laingor, Carol Madison, Al McClenaghan, Pat McCrory, Cheryl Price, John Saladin, Bill Soule, Andy Stevenson

Affiliate Staff:
Adolf Oliver - Watchstander
Bill Lansdown - Watchstander
David Perry - Watchstander
Jack Schoellhamer - Geologist
Jennifer Rego - Watchstander

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Adolf Oliver - Watchstander
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Andy Stevenson (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Bill Lansdown - Watchstander
Brent Dalrymple (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Carol Madison (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Cheryl Price (USGS Western Region) - Dafe Curator
Dave Clague (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
David Perry - Watchstander
Gary Greene (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Jack Schoellhamer - Geologist
Jennifer Rego - Watchstander
John Laingor - Chief Mate
John Saladin - Electronics Technician
Mike Boyle (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Pat McCrory (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Bill Soule - Chief Engineer

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 37.80967 South: 36.60675 West: -123.557 East: -121.79665

Platform(s):

photo of Sea Sounder
Sea Sounder

Publications

Davis, A.S., and Clague, D.A., 2003, Hyaloclastite from Miocene Seamounts Offshore Central California: Compositions, Eruption Styles, and Depositional Processes: In: White, J.D.L., Smellie, J.L., and Clague, D.A. (Eds.). Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism, American Geophysical Union, pp. 129–142, doi: 10.1029/140gm08.

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data s-4-78-nc.305
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Raw depth (bathymetry) data s-4-78-nc.301
Edited bathymetry data s-4-78-nc.330
Edited bathymetry data s-4-78-nc.330_010 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Survey information
airgunarcer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Dead reckoning data s-4-78-nc.010 (Provisional best file)
Lines
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data s-4-78-nc.010_degree
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
miniranger --- Navigation
Edited ranging navigation data with Lat/Long s-4-78-nc.690
Survey information
underwatercamera --- Photo
Station Information
chaindredge --- Geology
dredge samples (data in holdings)
Station Information
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data s-4-78-nc.000
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information

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