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Field Activity Details for field activity T168NS

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AKA: none

Other ID: T-1-68-NS

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): Dave Hopkins, Dick Tagg, Hans Nelson

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

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Start Date: 1968-07-13

End Date: 1968-08-13

Equipment Used: precisionrangingsystem, VanVeengrab

Information to be Derived: Texture, heavy minerals, foraminifera, pebble roundness, lithology.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Frank Wang, Bob Rowland

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Dave Hopkins (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dick Tagg (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Frank Wang (USGS Western Region) - Unspecified Investigator
Shackleford (USGS Western Region) - Unspecified Investigator
Bob Rowland (USGS Western Region) - Unspecified Investigator

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 65 South: 63 West: -168 East: -160

Platform(s):


Tomcod

Publications

Nelson, C.H., Pierce, D.E., Leong, K.W., and Wang, F.F.H., 1972, Mercury distribution in Ancient and Modern Sediment of Northeastern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-0268, http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/webpubs/usgs/of/text/of72-0268.PDF.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
precisionrangingsystem --- Navigation
VanVeengrab --- Geology

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