1970-001-FA (CMHRP activity #420)

Field Activity 1970-001-FA

Identifier

1970-001-FA

Alternate names

DSDP Leg 10; CORPUS 9

Location

Sigsbee Abyssal Plain, U.S. continental shelf, Sigsbee Scarp, Vera Cruz Gap, Campeche Scarp, Yucatan Shelf, Catoche Tongue, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

DSDP drill holes #85-97.

Info derived

Grain size analysis; Morphology;

Comments

Project = Deep Sea Drilling Project, Deep Sea Drilling Project

URL

http://www.deepseadrilling.org/10/dsdp_toc.htm

Platform

Glomar Challenger

400 feet

Itinerary

Start	Galveston, TX	1970-02-13
End	Miami, FL	1970-04-05
Days in the field	50

Bounds

West	-95.99803323
East	-83.93554688
North	26.15979457
South	20.52307375

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Kendall Dickenson

Crew members

Affiliate staff

J. Lamar Worzel - LDGO, Co-Chief Sci.; William Bryant - Texas A&M, Co-Chief Sci.

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type:	Navigation, Geology

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Survey Equipment	Description
Cruise Report	(document not focused on specific equipment)	Minimal information.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Grab sampler	Biology, Geology	(no data reported)
Loran-C	Navigation	1
Rotary core	Geology	1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1970-001-FA-LN-001	Loran-C	station locations	Nancy K. Soderberg
1970-001-FA-SC-001	Rotary core	Core descriptions	PARTNER