Field Activity 1971-008-FA

Identifier 1971-008-FA
Alternate names UGEO Leg 8; CORPUS 23, U-08-71-PR, U0871PR
Purpose Conduct a geophysical survey.
Location gulf transit, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Collected bathymetry (3.5 kHz) and gravity data.
Comments Holdings at PCMSC 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 1971-12-15
End Corpus Christi, TX 1971-12-24
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -100
East -63
North 31
South 15

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Case, James
Crew members

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Minimal information.
Gravity log book Gravity log on coding sheets.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Loran-C Navigation 1
Geomechanique streamer Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity 1
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Magnetometer (wh) Magnetics 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1971-008-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1971-008-FA-BA-001 3.5 kHz Bathymetric data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1971-008-FA-GP-001 Gravity meter (wh) Gravity data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
NGDC MGD77 data Magnetometer (wh) Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity