Field Activity 1980-012-FA

Identifier 1980-012-FA
Alternate names AST-80-6B
Purpose Define the acoustic stratigraphy and structure of Cox Ledge and determine the occurrence and seaward extent of large, deeply buried preglacial valleys cut into the submerged coastal plain rocks beneath this part of the inner continental shelf.
Location Cox Ledge, southern Rhode Island Sound, Martha's Vineyard, Muskeget Channel, Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Uniboom: 226 line km of high-resolution sub-bottom profiles (122 nautical miles).
Comments Original Center People field contained: Chuck O'Hara, Chief Scientist; John Eusden, Geological Field Assistant; Anne Whitney, Geological Field Assistant.
Platform
Asterias
Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1980-06-10
End (port not specified) 1980-06-12
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -71.5
East -70.5
North 41.33333
South 41.16667

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Chuck O'Hara
Crew members
Chuck O'Hara
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff John Eusden, Geological Field Assistant; Anne Whitney, Geological Field Assistant

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Boomer, Air Gun / Water Gun, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report describing objectives, equipment and configuration, participants, data acquisition statistics, and track maps.
Uniboom log Uniboom seismic log containing line numbers, start and end dates and times, Loran time delays, data acquisition notes, equipment performance.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
EG&G 234 Boomer (no data reported)
Del Norte hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker 4
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 5

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1980-012-FA-SE-001 Del Norte hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( UNI) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-012-FA-SE-002 Del Norte hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-012-FA-SE-003 Del Norte hydrophone Raw SEGY formatted data Nancy K. Soderberg
SEGY data Del Norte hydrophone Linda P McCarthy
1980-012-FA-LN-001-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Track map for western half of survey. Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-012-FA-LN-001-02 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Track map for eastern half of survey. Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-012-FA-LN-001-03 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Track map for western half of survey. (different annotation) Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-012-FA-LN-001-04 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Track map for eastern half of survey. (different annotation) Nancy K. Soderberg
Nav data Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity