| Identifier | 1976-016-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | FAY 016 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Equipment test cruise. | ||||||||
| Location | Corpus Christi, Texas, Port Everglades, Florida, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Airguns and gradiometer gave good results. 3.5 kHz system periodically lost the bottom. Teledyne sparker failed to arrive before departure; will be tested on a later leg. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Richard Sylwester - Ch. Sci., seismic systems; Perry Parks - gravity system; 4 other USGS cruise participants. | ||||||||
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| Organization |
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Richard Sylwester | ||||
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| Affiliate staff | 1 unspecified technician |
| Data category: | Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler |
| Name | Survey Equipment | Description |
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| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's cruise summary describing ship movement, personnel, and equipment and data acquisition notes. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| Air gun | Air Gun / Water Gun | (no data reported) | |
| SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker | (no data reported) | |
| Geometrics G-856 magnetometer | Magnetics | 1 | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 2 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1976-016-FA-GP-001 | Geometrics G-856 magnetometer | Digital tape(s) of GR, NV, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1976-016-FA-LN-001 | Loran-C | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 76016 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1976-016-FA-LN-002 | Loran-C | Digital tape(s) of GR, NV, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
