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Field Activity Details for field activity W395NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: W-3-95-NC,W9509

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Strata Formations on Margins (Strataform) (MU278)

Principal Investigator(s): Homa Lee

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Ken Israel

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Fluorescence, Environmental Data: Nitrate, Environmental Data: pH, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: STRATA FORmation on Margins (STRATAFORM) was initiated in 1994 by the Office of Naval Research as a coordinated multi-investigator study of continental-margin sediment transport processes and stratigraphy. The program is investigating the stratigraphic signature of the shelf and slope portions of continental margins, and hopes to provide better understanding of the sedimentary record and better prediction of strata.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1995-09-16

End Date: 1995-09-24

Equipment Used: boxcore, pistoncore, Kastencore, watersamples, navigation, CTD

Information to be Derived: cores were analyzed using a multi-sensor core logger, yielding P-wave velocity, wet bulk density, and magnetic susceptibility data.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 148 box cores, 5 piston cores, and 10 Kasten cores, along with 10 CTD casts.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: physical data holdings
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Homa Lee (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 41.13328 South: 40.54547 West: -124.663 East: -124.197

Platform(s):

photo of Wecoma
Wecoma

Publications

Minasian, D.L., Lee, H.J., Locat, J., Orzech, K.M., Martz, G.R., and Israel, K., 2001, The STRATAFORM Project: geotechnical studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-190, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/0190/.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
Station Information
pistoncore --- Geology
Station Information
Kastencore --- Geology
Station Information
watersamples --- Conductivity
CTD
Dissolved Oxygen
Fluorescence
Nitrate
pH
Temperature
Turbidity
Wave
Station Information
navigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data w-3-95-nc.050 (Provisional best file)
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD

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