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Field Activity 1970-004-FA

Identifier 1970-004-FA
Alternate names CORPUS 11
Purpose High-resolution seismic survey.
Location Virgin Islands platform, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, northeast Caribbean, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Sparker; High-resolution continuous seismic reflection profiles: 277 km.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Project = Tektite II - Virgin Islands Co-op, Tektite II - Virgin Islands Co-op
Platform
Advance II
180 feet long.
Itinerary
Start San Juan, Puerto Rico 1970-04-09
End St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 1970-04-14
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -65.01
East -64.7
North 18.3
South 18.2

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Louis E. Garrison
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Louis E. Garrison
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Sparker

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Minimal information.
Seismic log Equipment description, daily log, and line start and end times. The scanned logbook cover also refers to 1 other field activity - 1970-003-FA, but the contents of the PDF are specific to this cruise.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Visual navigation Navigation (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity