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Field Activity Details for field activity W169SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: W-1-69-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Southern California Continental Borderland (MU270)

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Fred Spiess

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

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Start Date: 1969-10-09

End Date: 1969-10-30

Equipment Used: airgun

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Fred Spiess - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 34.75 South: 32.25 West: -122.75 East: -116.75

Platform(s):

photo of Thomas Washington
Thomas Washington

Publications

Normark, W.R., 1974, Submarine canyons and fan valleys; factors affecting growth patterns of deep-sea fans, Modern and Ancient Geosynclinal Sedimentation; Submarine canyon and fan deposits: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, v. 19, pp. 56–68.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1972, Sediments and growth pattern of Navy Deep-Sea Fan, San Clemente Basin, California borderland: Journal of Geology, v. 80 no. 2, pp. 198–223.

Normark, W.R., and Piper, David J. W., 1972, Sediments and growth pattern of Navy deep-sea fan, San Clemente Basin, California borderland: San Diego, University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, v. 42, part 2, no. 80, Contributions, pp. 1094–1119.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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