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Field Activity Details for field activity W177SC

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AKA: lease sale #48

Other ID: W-1-77-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Bill Richmond

Affiliate Investigator(s): Deborah Burdick

Information Specialist(s): Ray Sliter

Data Type(s): Seismics: Sparker, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

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Start Date: 1977-09-01

End Date: 1978-03-31

Equipment Used: sidescansonar, sparker, 3.5khz, minisparker

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Notes: 6 microfilm rolls returned to Sam Johnson via Chris Sorlien 4/17/2018
Data Types: 10 kJ sparker 2-channel 1.5 kJ Acoustipulse minisparker (single channel) side-scan sonar Secondary platform: M/V Sea Mark

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 35.75 South: 32.25 West: -122.25 East: -114.25

Platform(s):


Widgeon

Publications

Richmond, W.C., Cummings, L.J., Hamlin, S., and Nagaty, M.E., 1981, Geologic hazards and constraints in the area of OCS oil and gas lease sale 48, Southern California (Sale held June 29, 1979): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-307, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr81307.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
sparker --- Sparker
sparker microfilm (data in holdings)
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
3.5 bathy, acoustipulse microfilm (data in holdings)
minisparker --- Sparker

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