| Identifier | 1985-034-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 85 Leg 3A; FRNL 85-3A | ||||||||
| Purpose | Long-range sidescan sonar survey of the Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) using the GLORIA system. | ||||||||
| Location | eastern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | GLORIA Sidescan Sonar: 6,557 km; 10 kHz: 6,734 km; 3.5 kHz: 6,738 km; Airgun: 6,578 km; Magnetometer: 6,712 km. | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Dave Twichell - Ch. Sci., Robert Commeau - geologist, Steve Mateus - geologist, Page Valentine - geologist. Project = GLORIA Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) EEZ Survey 1985, GLORIA Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) EEZ Survey 1985 | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David C Twichell | ||||||||
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| Affiliate principal | Lindsay Parson - British Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS) | ||||||||
| Affiliate staff | Charles Paull - geologist, Scripps; Kim Benjamin - engineer, WHOI; Derek Bishop - GLORIA engineer, IOS; Lindsay Parson - co-Ch. Sci., IOS; Robin Bonner - airgun tech, IOS; Jon Campbell - GLORIA engineer, IOS; Andrew Harris - GLORIA engineer, IOS; Colin Jacobs - geologist, IOS; Doriel Jones - shipboard computing, RVS; Derek Lewis - shipboard computing, RVS |
| Data category: | Sonar, Seismics, Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Sidescan, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Magnetics, Single Beam, Navigation |
| Name | Survey Equipment | Description |
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| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, cruise narrative, tabulated information, trackmap, and data documentation forms. |
| Contractor's report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Contract Report (pdf file) Institute of Oceanographic Sciences contract report. Includes personnel, program description, cruise narrative, scientific results and trackmaps. The report specified 4 legs of operation. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| GLORIA sidescan | Sidescan | 4 | |
| Air gun | Air Gun / Water Gun | (no data reported) | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 4 | |
| Marine magnetometer | Magnetics | 1 | |
| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| 10 kHz Bathymetry | Single Beam | 2 | |
| ABC navigation system | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 2 | |
| GPS (wh) | Navigation | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1985-034-FA-SO-001 | GLORIA sidescan | Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1985-034-FA-SO-002 | GLORIA sidescan | Digital tapes of NV, GLORIA-PASSES 2-51, GLORIA PASSES 69-78, and PROCESSED GLORIA: inventory #2954, 2955, 2956, 2957, 2959, 3608, 3609, 3610, 3611, 3612, 3613, 3614, 3615, and 3616. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1985-034-FA-SO-003 | GLORIA sidescan | CD ROM disk of GLORIA ATLANTIC GEOTIFF, GLORIA GULF MEXICO GEOTIFF, GLORIA IMAGES, GLORIA/MOSAIC 1-16, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| GLORIA sidescan data | GLORIA sidescan | Linda P McCarthy | |
| 1985-034-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1985-034-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1985-034-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper single-channel high-resolution seismic records for airgun system 10-sec sweep (1 folder FD #4036); 5-sec sweep (2 folders FD #4037-4038);10 kHz (4 folders FD #4039-4042#); 3.5 kHz (7 folders FD #4043-4049); and air gun monitor (2 folders FD #4050-F4051). | Alice M. Orton |
| 1985-034-FA-SE-003-01 | Single channel hydrophone | Electronic scans of some paper seismic profiles. | Alice M. Orton |
| NGDC MGD77 data | Marine magnetometer | Linda P McCarthy | |
| 1985-034-FA-BA-001 | 10 kHz Bathymetry | CD ROM disk of GLORIA ATLANTIC GEOTIFF, GLORIA GULF MEXICO GEOTIFF, GLORIA IMAGES, GLORIA/MOSAIC 1-16, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| NGDC MGD77 data | 10 kHz Bathymetry | Linda P McCarthy | |
| 1985-034-FA-LN-001-01 | Loran-C | Trackline map for R/V FARNELLA Cruise FRNL85-3A | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| Nav data | Loran-C | Linda P McCarthy |
