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Field Activity Details for field activity Z110SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: Z-1-10-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Coastal and Marine Catastrophic Hazards (ZP00C4A)

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): David Caress

Information Specialist(s): James Conrad

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Multibeam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: High-resolution bathymetric and sub-bottom survey of selected parts of the San Diego Trough fault to identify target sites for additional sampling to determine time of most recent fault movement and slip rate.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2010-08-10

End Date: 2010-08-23

Equipment Used: GPS, Chirp, submetrix

Information to be Derived: High-resolution bathymetry and sub-bottom seismic profiles

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: USGS contracted for 2 18-hour surveys of selected areas using the MBARI AUV, conducted on Aug. 21-22, 2010

Location:

southern California

Boundaries
North: 33.5 South: 32.8 West: -118.7 East: -117.2

Platform(s):

photo of Zephyr
Zephyr

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data
Chirp --- Boomer
submetrix --- Interferometric
Multibeam

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