Oil consortium (Exxon, Chevron, Gulf, Mobil) to conduct additional deep stratigraphic coring on the U.S. Atlantic slope complementing previous offshore deep exploration (FA 65001) to obtain cores from 13 Holes on the shelf, slope, and canyons of the middle Atlantic region.
Location
Blake Plateau, Blake Nose, Blake Escarpment, Cape Hatteras, Baltimore Canyon Trough, Norfolk Canyon, Washington Canyon, Veatch Canyon, Georges Bank Basin, U.S. Atlantic Continental Slope, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary
Wells: 13 (ASPs 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, and 23; ASPs 8 and 13 not sampled by USGS).
Info derived
Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Morphology;
