1981-013-FA (CMHRP activity #736)

Field Activity 1981-013-FA

Identifier

1981-013-FA

Alternate names

81-1

Purpose

Test short-barrel piston corer to recover hard substrate and sample for phosphorites on the west Florida shelf.

Location

southwest Florida shelf, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Cores: 17; 3.5 kHz data: 307 km; LORAN-C data: 359 km.

Comments

Original Center People field contained: Frank Manheim - Ch. Sci.; Paul Bowker - PST, Richard Rendigs - geologist, Ray Hall - paleontologist, David Brewster - GFA, Candy Lane - GFA, Dave Queeley - MPES, John West - ET. Information from Foghorn: ORE fish and transceiver for 3.5 kHz acoustic profiling;EPC 4100 recorder, 1700 lb. weight stand w/ 10 ft. 3 in. pipe for piston coring;hydraulic core extruder;binocular microscope;chemical equipment for phosphate testing;

Platform

Longhorn

Length 105 feet (1986); originally 85 feet long.

Itinerary

Start	St. Petersburg, FL	1981-05-22
End	Key West, FL	1981-05-25
Days in the field	3

Bounds

West	-83.2
East	-81.9
North	27.6
South	25.75

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Frank T. Manheim

Crew members

Richard R Rendigs	Scientist, Staff
Hall, Raymond E.	Scientist, Staff
Bostwick, Candy	Scientist, Staff
Bowker, Paul	Scientist, Staff
John West	Scientist, Staff
Frank T. Manheim	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate staff

David Brewster - GFA, Dave Queeley - MPES; Beecher Wooding - WHOI, Ch. Tech.

Data types and categories

Data category:	Seismics, Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type:	Sub Bottom Profiler, Experiments (biological), Navigation, Geology

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Brief chief scientist's cruise report including personnel list and equipment. Also includes a table of station information and a trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler	Sub Bottom Profiler	(no data reported)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C	Navigation	(no data reported)
Piston corer	Geology	1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1981-013-FA-NL-001-02	Piston corer	Core collection log with location, water depth, equipment description, and core and subsample description.	Nancy K. Soderberg