Field Activity 1973-001-FA

Identifier 1973-001-FA
Alternate names LYNCH 73
Purpose Geophysical survey.
Location Atlantic continental slope, rise and margin, offshore Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Collected continuous seismic profiles (Lines AB, BD, DE, EF, FG, and GH), sidescan sonar, gravity, and magnetics (deep towed magnetometer over quiet magnetic zone).
Info derived Morphology;
Platform
Lynch
Length 209 feet; beam 40 feet; draft 16 feet.
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1973-05-20
End (port not specified) 1973-06-15
Days in the field 27
Bounds
West -75.25
East -65.65
North 41.5
South 34.8

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators John Schlee
Crew members
Frank Jennings
Scientist, Staff
Mattick, Robert E.
Scientist, Staff
John Schlee
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Patrick Taylor - USN Oceanographic Office
Affiliate staff Bill Osburn (Univ. of Delaware); David Greenwalt, Tom Getz, Clive Hulick, Jim Strauss; Donald McNair

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Single Beam, Sonobuoy

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) PDF of cruise information with minimal information.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Seismic refraction Sonobuoy (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Marine magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 4
Air gun Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1973-001-FA-LN-001-01 Loran-C Cruise track chart for May 25-31 and June 12-13, 1973 with days and 15 minute positions. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-001-FA-LN-001-02 Loran-C Lines AB, BD, GH (pdf file) Part 1 of cruise track chart with line numbers, days, and 15 minute positions. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-001-FA-LN-001-03 Loran-C Lines BD, FG, GH (pdf file) Part 2 of cruise track chart with line numbers, days, and 15 minute positions. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-001-FA-LN-001-04 Loran-C Lines AB, BD, DE, EF, FG, GH (pdf file) Part 3 of cruise track chart with line numbers, days, and 15 minute positions. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-001-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-001-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of LINES AB,BD,DE,EF,FG,GH Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity