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Field Activity Details for field activity W167MX

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AKA: none

Other ID: W-1-67-MX

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Fred Spiess Chief Scientist, Scripps B. Luyendyk Chief Scientist, Scripps

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Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

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Start Date: 1967-11-07

End Date: 1967-12-15

Equipment Used: magnetics, LoranC, airgun

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Location:

Mexico

Boundaries
North: 31.8296 South: 22.4592 West: -116.9248 East: -109.801

Platform(s):

photo of Thomas Washington
Thomas Washington

Publications

Chase, T.E., Normark, W.R., and Wilde, P., 1976, Compilations of marine geologic and oceanographic data off the West Coast of the United States: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 809–809.

Chase, T.E., Holmes, M.L., Wilde, P., and Normark, W.R., 1977, Compilation of marine geologic and oceanographic data off the western United States; Cascadia Sheet: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs,, v. 9 no. 7, pp. 926–926.

Chase, T.E., Normark, W.R., Thomas, J.A., Holmes, M.L., and Wilde, P., 1979, Compilation of marine geologic and oceanographic data off the western United States; southern California continental borderland: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 400–400.

Hess, G.R., and Normark, W.R., 1980, Possible geometries of sandstone bodies as reflected by geomorphic features on modern submarine fans: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 64 no. 5, pp. 722–723.

Klitgord, K.D., Mudie, John D., and Normark, William R., 1972, Magnetic Lineations Observed Near the Ocean Floor and Possible Implications on the Geomagnetic Chronology of the Gilbert Epoch: The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 28 no. 1, pp. 35–48.

Mudie, J.D., Normark, William R., and Klitgord, Kim D., 1971, Some more magnetic lineations observed near the ocean floor in the northeast Pacific and possible implications on Gilbert geomagnetic chronology: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 52 no. 4, pp. 194–194.

Normark, W.R., 1976, Growth patterns of deep-sea fans, in Whitaker, J.H., ed., Submarine canyons and deep-sea fans; modern and ancient: Stroudsburg, Pa., Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc.

Normark, W.R., 1977, Neogene basins and transform motion within the Pacific continental margin of Baja California: Offshore Technology Conference, v. 9 no. 3, pp. 93–100.

Normark, W.R., 1971, Transfer of lower Baja California, Mexico, from North American to Pacific lithospheric plates: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 172–172.

Normark, W.R., Allison, E.C., and Curray, J.R., 1969, The geology of the Pacific continental margin of the peninsula of Baja California: , Geological Society of America Abstracts, Annual Meeting. pp. 163–163.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, D.J.W., 1969, Deep-sea fan valleys, past and present: , Geological Society of America Abstracts Cordilleran Section. , pp. 49–49.

Normark, W.R., and Spiess, F.N., 1969, Active channel system of the San Lucas submarine fan at the tip of Baja California: Geological Society of America Special Paper, pp. 220–221.

Normark, W.R., Hess, G.R., and Spiess, F.N.,, 1978, Mapping of small scale (outcrop-size) sedimentological features on modern submarine fans: Offshore Technology Conference Proceedings, v. 10 no. 1, pp. 593–598.

Normark, W.R., Loughridge, Michael S., and Spiess, F.N., 1968, Detailed channel morphology of the La Jolla submarine fan valley: American Geophysical Union Transactions, v. 49 no. 1, pp. 212–212.

Normark, W.R., Spencer, J.E., and Ingle, J.C., Jr., 1987, Geology and Neogene history of the Pacific continental margin of Baja California Sur, Mexico: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6, pp. 449–472.

Normark, W.R., 1969, Erosional deep sea fan valleys: , Geological Society of America Abstracts Rocky Mountain Section. , 59 p.

Normark, W.R., 1970, Growth patterns of deep-sea fans: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 54 no. 11, pp. 2170–2195.

Normark, W.R., 1969, Growth patterns of deep-sea fans: San Diego, La Jolla, CA, University of California, dissertation.

Normark, W.R., 1970, Growth Patterns of Deep-Sea Fans: San Diego, CA, University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Contributions, v. 40 no. 2, pp. 1488–1513.

Normark, W.R., 1971, Mini-topography of deep-sea fans; geometric considerations for facies interpretations in turbidites, in Geologic guide book--Newport Lagoon to San Clemente, Orange County, California: Tulsa, OK, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section.

Normark, W.R., 1972, Submarine canyons and fan-valleys; factors affecting growth processes of deep-sea fans (abst.), in A conference on modern and ancient geosynclinal sedimentation: Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin National Science Foundation.

Normark, W.R., and Curray, Joseph R., 1968, Geology and structure of the tip of Baja California, Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79 no. 11, pp. 1589–1600.

Spencer, J.E., and Normark, W.R., 1979, The Neogene Tosco-Abreojos strike-slip fault within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, Mexico: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 129–129.

Spencer, J.E., and Normark, W.R., 1979, Tosco-Abreojos fault zone; a Neogene transform plate boundary within the Pacific margin of southern Baja California, Mexico: Geology, v. 7 no. 11, pp. 554–557.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
magnetics --- Magnetics
Edited magnetics data w-1-67-mx.221_050 (Provisional best file)
LoranC --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data w-1-67-mx.050 (Provisional best file)
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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