1971-007-FA (CMHRP activity #440)

Field Activity 1971-007-FA

Identifier

1971-007-FA

Alternate names

UGEO Leg 7; CORPUS 22, U-07-71-PR, U0171PR

Purpose

Conduct a geophysical survey.

Location

Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Collected bathymetry (3.5 kHz) and gravity data.

Comments

Data holdings at PCMSC Original Center People field contained: Louis Garrison; James Case (Geophysicist); Dennis Cox (Geologist); Harry Hill (Electronics Technician); James Nicholson (Electronics Technician). Project = International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE), International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE)

Related activities

1971-001-FA: Cruise legs

Platform

United Geo I

Length 125 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	1971-12-11
End	Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	1971-12-15
Days in the field	5

Bounds

West	-69
East	-63
North	21
South	15

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

Louis E. Garrison

Crew members

Louis E. Garrison	Scientist, Staff
Case, James	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate staff

Dennis Cox (Geologist); PMG - Harry Hill (Electronics Technician), James Nicholson (Electronics Technician)

Data types and categories

Data category:	Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type:	Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Echosounder	Single Beam	2
Loran-C	Navigation	1
Magnetometer (wh)	Magnetics	1
Gravity meter (wh)	Gravity	2
Sparker	Sparker	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1971-007-FA-BA-001	Echosounder	Bathymetry data in InfoBank	Nancy K. Soderberg
NGDC MGD77 data	Echosounder		Linda P McCarthy
1971-007-FA-LN-001	Loran-C	Navigation Data in InfoBank	Nancy K. Soderberg
1971-007-FA-GP-001	Magnetometer (wh)	Magnetics data in InfoBank	Nancy K. Soderberg
1971-007-FA-GP-002	Gravity meter (wh)	Gravity data in InfoBank	William C Steele
NGDC MGD77 data	Gravity meter (wh)		Linda P McCarthy