Field Activity 1981-001-FA

Identifier 1981-001-FA
Alternate names 81-1
Purpose Conduct a continuous 12-channel CDP seismic reflection profile along the Mississippi River from Osceola, Arkansas to the vicinity of Cairo, Illinois.
Location Mississippi River, Osceola, Arkansas, to Hickman, Kentucky, United States, North America;
Summary 133 km of trackline recorded. Weather and equipment failures caused delays and decision to terminate survey at mile 197.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Dennis O'Leary, Chief Scientist; Frank Jennings, Electronic technician; Dave Nichols, DFS V operator; Donald Smith, Shore coordinator/van driver. Project = Marine Seismic Operations, Marine Seismic Operations
Platform
Neecho
38 feet
Itinerary
Start Memphis, TN 1981-01-06
End Wycliff, KY 1981-01-18
Days in the field 13
Bounds
West -89.9
East -89.2
North 36.6
South 35.75

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Dennis O'Leary
Crew members
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Dennis O'Leary
Scientist, Staff
Frank Jennings
Scientist, Staff
Smith, Donald
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff USGS-Denver: Samuel Harding, Scientist

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's log of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
Visual navigation Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity