Field Activity 1977-013-FA

Identifier 1977-013-FA
Alternate names CORPUS 52
Purpose Study the sedimentological and depositional aspects of the Texas Bay System.
Location Texas Bay System, Rickport Bay, Aransas Bay, Copano Bay, San Antonio Bay, Pass Covallo, Matagorda Bay, Lavaca Bay, Galveston Bay, Texas, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Operations occurred intermittently between April 5 through May 6, 1977 during daylight hours only. The actual working team consisted of 5-6 men; substitutions were made as situations required. High-resolution seismic data was acquired for the upper 125 meters of sediment. Sparker: 1125 km; General log: 52A; Time log: 52B.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: USGS-Corpus Christi: Ronald Miller - Ch. Sci., Neal Lillard, Kenneth Roberts. Project = Coastal Zone Project, Coastal Zone Project
Platform
Chem Mist
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1977-04-05
End (port not specified) 1977-05-06
Days in the field 19
Bounds
West -97.75
East -94.5
North 29.55
South 25.95

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Ronald J. Miller
Crew members
Ronald J. Miller
Scientist, Staff
Roberts, Kenneth
Scientist, Staff
Lillard, Neal
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Texas Bureau of Economic Geology: Richard Anderson, John Chin, John Herbert, Chet Safe, Dale Solemon

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Sparker, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report, equipment and data acquisition notes,includes trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Motorola Mini-Ranger III Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1977-013-FA-LN-001 Motorola Mini-Ranger III Navigation trackline plot for field activity 77013 Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity