1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 1976-026-FA

Identifier 1976-026-FA
Alternate names FAY 019
Purpose This cruise between Charleston and Norfolk concentrated on long geophysical profiles over the continental shelf, slope and rise off Cape Hatteras. Eight long profiles were collected transverse to the margin and two parallel to the margin along the rise tying into DSDP sites #105 and 106. Magnetics, gravity and minisparker data were collected along 2 transverse lines that went along previously purchased multichannel lines.
Location Middle Atlantic Bight, Charleston, South Carolina to Norfolk, Virginia, Atlantic Continental shelf, slope and rise, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary The single-channel reflection profiles for FAY 019 were outstanding with excellent resolution of basement and the deeper Mesozoic horizons throughout the western Atlantic. Airgun: 3590 km; Gravity: 4770 km; Magnetics: 3940 km; Minisparker: 4270 km; 3.5 kHz Sonar: 680 km.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: John Grow - Ch. Sci., Perry Parks - nav./grav. engineer, Richard Sylwester - seismic engineer, Rob Pexton - seismic tech., Gerard McCarthy - seismic tech., Felicity Oram - mech. tech., Kathy Kent - nav. watch, Scott Heald - nav. watch, David Egelson - nav. watch, Claire Reimers - nav. watch, Ralph Lewis - seismic watch, Barbara Tausey - seismic watch/data curator, Debbie Doyle - seismic watch, Lois Tomlinson - seismic watch, Norrie Robbins - seismic watch.
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Platform
Fay
176 feet
Itinerary
Start Charleston, SC 1976-07-17
End Norfolk, VA 1976-08-04
Days in the field 19
Bounds
West -80.00244141
East -68.63290691
North 38.07308072
South 30.91898115

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators John Grow
Crew members
John Grow
Scientist, Staff
Parks, Perry
Scientist, Staff
Tausey, Barbara
Scientist, Staff
Egelson, David
Scientist, Staff
Kathleen Kent
Scientist, Staff
Richard Sylwester
Scientist, Staff
Lewis, Ralph
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Rob Pexton - seismic tech., Gerard McCarthy - seismic tech., Felicity Oram - mech. tech.,Scott Heald - nav. watch, Claire Reimers - nav. watch, Debbie Doyle - seismic watch, Lois Tomlinson - seismic watch, Norrie Robbins - seismic watch

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise summary of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes. Includes trackmaps.
Geophysics log (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Technician's description of configuration and performance of seismic equipment and data.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Seismic Engineering streamer Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker 9
Air gun Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity 1
Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Navigation 7
Echosounder Single Beam 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1976-026-FA-3.5kHz_scans 3.5 kHz TIFF images of 3.5 kHz paper records. Scanned at 300 DPI, grayscale Alice M. Orton
1976-026-FA-SE-001 Seismic Engineering streamer film collection of CSP,MSP,AIR,NV Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-SE-002 Seismic Engineering streamer Collection of paper airgun and minisparker record displays of seismic data. Alice M. Orton
1976-026-FA-SE-002-01_airgun Seismic Engineering streamer Digital electronic scans of airgun paper seismic profiles. Scanned at 300 dpi, grayscale. Alice M. Orton
1976-026-FA-SE-002-01_replay Seismic Engineering streamer Digital electronic scans of paper seismic profiles - replay records. Scanned at 300 dpi, grayscale. Unsure which seismic system these represent. Alice M. Orton
1976-026-FA-SE-002-01_rerun Seismic Engineering streamer Digital electronic scans of paper seismic profiles - rerun record. Scanned at 300 dpi, grayscale. Unsure which seismic system these represent. Alice M. Orton
1976-026-FA-SE-002-01_sparker Seismic Engineering streamer Digital electronic scans of sparker paper seismic profiles. Scanned at 300 dpi, grayscale. Alice M. Orton
1976-026-FA-SE-003 Seismic Engineering streamer microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-SE-004 Seismic Engineering streamer analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
image2segy Seismic Engineering streamer data at PCMSC;FAD. Please contact PCMSC_data@usgs.gov with any questions. Evan T Dailey
1976-026-FA-GP-001 Gravity meter (wh) Digital tapes of gravity and magnetics data: GR, GR-FINAL, MG, and MG-FINAL; inv. # 0923, 0936, 0945, 0967, and 1596. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-001-01 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Trackline Map (pdf file) Trackline map with dates, four-hour fixes, line numbers, geologic features, equipment operation, etc. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-001-02 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Trackline Map 1 of 5 (pdf file) Trackline map for July 17-18, 1976 with hourly fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-001-03 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Trackline Map 2 of 5 (pdf file) Trackline map for July 18-26, 1976 with hourly fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-001-04 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Trackline Map 3 of 5 (pdf file) Trackline for map July 23, 24, and 31 and August 1-4, 1976 with hourly fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-001-05 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Trackline Map 4 of 5 (pdf file) Trackline map for July 26-27, 1976 with hourly fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-001-06 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Trackline Map 5 of 5 (pdf file) Trackline map for July 27-31, 1976 with hourly fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-LN-002-01 Western Geophysical Integrated Navigation System Navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-026-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Digital tapes of BT and BT-FINAL data: inv # 0945, 0946, 0961, 0967, and 0986. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity