| Identifier | 1981-008-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 81-G-6-2; 81-G-5 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Collect high-resolution seismics to produce a hazard map and geologic interpretation of study area. | ||||||||
| Location | Mississippi shelf, Louisiana shelf, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | There were 1500 km of good quality high-resolution seismics and sidescan sonar, 46 grab samples, 40 drift bottle stations, and 75 km of magnetics and gravity. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map; Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Barry Irwin - Nav., Jim Dodd - Nav., David Mason - Elec. Tech., Kenneth Parolski - Elec. Tech., Dave Nichols - Elec. Tech. Project = Louisiana-Mississippi OCS, Louisiana-Mississippi OCS | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Ronald J. Miller | ||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | USGS-Corpus Christi: Ron Miller - Co-Ch. Sci., Jack Kindinger, Linda Massingill - Geol., Ronnie Wells - Geol., Betty Reed - Typist, Chuck Stelting - Phy. Sci. Tech., Doug Owens - Phys. Sci. Tech. |
| Data category: | Electro-Magnetic, Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar |
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| Data type: | Gravity, Magnetics, Current, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam |
| Name | Survey Equipment | Description |
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| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Brief chief scientist's cruise report including personnel list, equipment and a few comments. Also contains the NOAA general cruise inventory sheets. |
| Navigation log | Integrated Navigation System | Integrated Navigation System logbook for Legs 1 and 2 (81007 and 81008) containing day and time, line number, course, speed, latitude, and longitude with irregular fixes and data acquisition notes. |
| Geophysics log | Single channel hydrophone | Seismic log containing line numbers, start and end times, sparker, 3.5 kHz, 12 kHz and airgun configuration and performance. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| Air gun | Air Gun / Water Gun | (no data reported) | |
| 12 kHz | Single Beam | (no data reported) | |
| Sparker | Sparker | (no data reported) | |
| Marine magnetometer | Magnetics | (no data reported) | |
| Gravity meter (wh) | Gravity | 1 | |
| Current Drift Bottle | Current | (no data reported) | |
| Integrated Navigation System | Navigation | 1 | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1981-008-FA-GP-001 | Gravity meter (wh) | Digital tape(s) of NV-INS, NV,GR, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1981-008-FA-LN-001 | Integrated Navigation System | Digital tape(s) of NV-INS, NV,GR, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1981-008-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
