Field Activity 1979-018-FA

Identifier 1979-018-FA
Alternate names CHARLESTON
Purpose Shallow CDP seismic studies off Charleston, SC; one line off Delaware River entrance for USGS Conservation Division (Denver).
Location Delaware River, New Jersey, Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary CDP lines: 7 (#D-102 and CH-1 thru CH-6), 474.3 km.
Info derived Morphology;
Platform
Seismic Explorer
165 feet
Itinerary
Start Atlantic City, NJ 1979-07-20
End Tampa Bay, FL 1979-08-05
Days in the field 17
Bounds
West -80.4178
East -79.21667
North 32.83528
South 32.08389

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kenneth Bayer
Crew members
Kenneth Bayer
Scientist, Staff

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Contractor's report describing ship, seismic, navigation recording equipment configuration, and data acquisition notes, personnel, data block descriptions.
Cruise report Chief Scientist's daily narrative of ship movement, equipment configuration and performance, and data acquisition notes, 2 trackline maps.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Multichannel seismics Multichannel 1
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 4
Magnavox satellite positioning system Navigation (no data reported)
Sonar Doppler Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1979-018-FA-SE-001-01 Multichannel seismics Paper, mylar or acetate record sections of Lines CH-01, CH-02, CH-03, CH-04, CH-04RS, CH-05, CH-06, D-100, D-102, F-111A, F-111B, F-112, F-113, F-114, F-114A, F-114B, F-115, F-115RS, F-116, G-107, G-107/109A, G-108, G-109, G-110, M-102, M-102A, M-102B, M-103A, M-103B, V-104, V-104RS, V-105, V-105RS, V-106. Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-018-FA-LN-001 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C CDP navigation trackline plot for field activity 79018 Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-018-FA-LN-001-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Northern trackline chart Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-018-FA-LN-001-02 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Southern trackline chart Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-018-FA-LN-002 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Contractor Satellite Positioning Corp CDP navigation shotpoint track map for field activity 79018, Lines CH1 through CH6, inventory number MT1165 Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity