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Field Activity Details for field activity S5C79NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-5C-79-NC,REX_1

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Gary Greene

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Monterey, CA

End Port/Location: Treasure Island, CA

Start Date: 1979-06-08

End Date: 1979-06-11

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, gravitycore, uniboom, sparker, 12khz, integratednavigation, miniranger, transitsatellite, chaindredge, minisparker, gravity, airgun, LoranC

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Michael Boyle, Joe Clark, Scott Conard, Brent Dalrymple, Dave Klise, Paula Mackrow, Carol Madison, Pat McCrory, Jim Nicholson, Kevin O'Toole, Gordon Pitt, Don Reed, Bob Wilson

Affiliate Staff:
Frank Sherer - Ship Captain

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Bob Wilson (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Brent Dalrymple (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Carol Madison (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Dave Klise (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Don Reed (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Frank Sherer - Ship Captain
Gary Greene (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Gordon Pitt - Chief Mate
Jim Nicholson (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Joe Clark - Geologist
Kevin O'Toole (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Mike Boyle (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Pat McCrory (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Paula Mackrow - Navigator
Scott Conard (USGS Western Region) - Chief Engineer

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 37.97952 South: 36.6171 West: -123.436 East: -121.79815

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
gravitycore --- Geology
Station Information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
sparker --- Sparker
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Survey information
Tape list
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Lines
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data s-5c-79-nc.050 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) datas-5c-79-nc.050_degree
Survey information
miniranger --- Navigation
Survey information
Raw Miniranger data s-5c-79-nc.620
Edited ranging navigation data with Lat/Long s-5c-79-nc.690
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data s-5c-79-nc.000
Survey information
chaindredge --- Geology
dredge samples (data in holdings)
Survey information
minisparker --- Sparker
gravity --- Gravity
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
LoranC --- Navigation

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