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Field Activity 1977-042-FA

Identifier 1977-042-FA
Purpose Conduct a sub-bottom survey of the Rappahannock River and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia.
Location Rappahannock River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States, North America;
Summary Seismic sub-bottom profiles collected for mouth and lower Rappahannock River (Lines 1-12) and parts of Chesapeake Bay (Lines 1-4), Virginia.
Comments No cruise report found; information taken from seismic profiles. Original Submitted By field contained: A. Orton for Nancy Soderberg.
Platform
Rappahannock
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1977-06-13
End (port not specified) 1977-06-17
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -77
East -75.5
North 38.5
South 37

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics
Data type: Sparker

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1977-042-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( MSP) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity