| Identifier | 1974-004-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Commence studies of the movement and characteristics of bottom sediments and of the abundance and distribution of benthic organisms via acoustic survey and bottom sampling. | ||||||||
| Location | Baltimore Canyon Trough, outer continental shelf, offshore New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Tracklines: 2,348 km; Fathometer: 2,144 km; 3.5 kHz records: 1,809 km; EG&G Uniboom: 1,787 km; Sample stations: 93; Bottom sediment grabs: 228; Bottom water samples: 36. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Harley J. Knebel | ||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | David Radosh - NMFS-Sandy Hook, NJ; Karen O'Donnell - NOAA Corps; Robert Pawlowski - Ensign, NOAA Corps; Thomas J. McConnell - MT. MITCHELL Chief Survey Tech.; Frank Lamison - NOAA survey technician; Everett Marsh - NOAA survey technician; Paul Spithailer - NOAA survey technician; David Barnes - University of Western Michigan |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar |
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| Data type: | Temperature, Photo, Navigation, Chemistry, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist cruise report of data acquisition, equipment notes, etc. Includes amount of information gathered. |
| Ship brochure | NOAA Ship Welcome Brochure (pdf file) Description and photos depicting ship and crew capability. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Ross Model 5000 fathometer | Single Beam | (no data reported) | |
| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| Boomer | Boomer | (no data reported) | |
| Nansen bottles | Temperature, Chemistry | (no data reported) | |
| 35 mm camera | Photo | 1 | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 5 | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 6 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1974-004-FA-PH-001 | 35 mm camera | Ship photo | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1974-004-FA-LN-001 | Loran-C | microfilm of LINES 1-109 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1974-004-FA-LN-002-02 | Loran-C | Track Chart, Subarea II (pdf file) Track chart with dates and 15 minute fixes. | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1974-004-FA-LN-002-03 | Loran-C | Track Chart, Subarea III (pdf file) Track chart with dates and 15 minute fixes. | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1974-004-FA-LN-003 | Loran-C | Digital tape(s) of NV-LORAN C, NV-SUBAREAS, TRKCHT, NV-FINAL, SEIS LINES ONLY, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1974-004-FA-NL-001-01 | Loran-C | Chief Scientist's cruise report of data acquisition, equipment notes, etc. | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1974-004-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | film collection of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1974-004-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1974-004-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of LINES 1-109 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Delmarva_depth | Single channel hydrophone | Depth to Quaternary regional unconformities offshore of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters. This dataset contains six grids: 1) Uqt, the Quaternary-Tertiary composite unconformity; 2) U4, the subaerially and fluvially eroded lower boundary of the Persimmons Point and Ocean City Paleochannels; 3) U6, the subaerially and fluvially eroded lower boundary of the Exmore (Qx) and Belle Haven Paleochannels; 4) U8, the subaerially and fluvially eroded lower boundary of the Eastville Paleochannel and tributaries (Qe);5) U9, the transgressive ravinement surface above Qe and at the base of a Pleistocene highstand system tract (Q2); and 6) U10-U10.5, the composite of subaerially eroded (U10) and tidal ravinement (U10.5) unconformities that are the lower boundaries of the Cape Charles Paleochannel and tributaries and tidal inlet and back-barrier estuarine deposits. | David S Foster |
| Delmarva_thickness | Single channel hydrophone | Thickness of Quaternary seismic stratigraphic units offshore of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters. This dataset contains five grids: 1) Q, the total Quaternary sediment thickness above the composite unconformity (Uqt); 2) Qbd, a unit interpreted to be the equivalent of the Beaverdam Formation on land that overlies Uqt, or where present, U5 that separates the Persimmons Point and Ocean City Paleochannel fill from Qbd; 3) Q2, a highstand system tract above the U9 ravinement surface and below the composite subaerially and fluvially eroded unconformity (U10), tidal ravinement surface (U10.5), the Holocene transgressive ravinement surface (U11), and the sea floor; 4) Qcch, the fluvial and estuarine fill of the Cape Charles Paleochannel and tributaries, and the tidal inlet and back-barrier estuarine deposits above a tidal ravinement (U10.5)that are truncated by the Holocene transgressive ravinement surface (U11) or the sea floor; and 5) Qmn, include Holocene to modern nearshore marine sediment above the Holocene transgressive ravinement surface (U11). Hereafter, Qcch refers to Qcch and Qbb included in the same unit named Qcch. These data are useful for assessing the geologic framework. | David S Foster |
| USGS_1974-004-FA_1975-003-FA_tracklines | Single channel hydrophone | Trackline navigation for EG&G Uniboom seismic-reflection data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during field activities 1974-004-FA and 1975-003-FA offshore of the Delmarva Peninsula. | David S Foster |
