1987-301-FA (CMHRP activity #7750)

Field Activity 1987-301-FA

Identifier

1987-301-FA

Alternate names

Acadiana 87-2

Purpose

To collect geophysical and sedimentological data in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including shallow subsurface data in the form of high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles (HRSP).

Location

Northern Gulf of Mexico

Summary

Collected approximately 1506.145 line-kilometers of analog seismic data.

Info derived

Sub-bottom profile images

Comments

The Acadiana 87-2 geophysical cruise included seismic data collected in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chandeleur Sound, and Mississippi Sound from June 15-26, 1987. Data collection and processing methods are described in USGS Data Series 1047.

Platform

Acadiana

Length 58 feet

Vehicles

Unknown

Itinerary

Start	St.Petersburg, FL	1987-06-15
End	St.Petersburg, FL	1987-06-26

Bounds

West	-89.81872559
East	-88.10070801
North	30.36147072
South	28.99494472

Personnel

Organization

USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center(SPCMSC)

600 Fourth Street South

St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846

(727) 502-8000

Principal investigators

Jack L KindingerJames G Flocks

Crew members

Jack L Kindinger

Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Arnell S Forde	Specialist, Information
Stephen (Contractor) T Bosse	Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
GPS	Navigation	2
ORE Geopulse	Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler	(no data reported)
Benthos Mesh Hydrophones with Triton Elics SBLogger	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker	2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
CruiseTracklines_A87-2	GPS	Cruise trackline location shapefile	Stephen (Contractor) T Bosse
Navigation_A87-2	GPS	Long range navigation (LORAN) system geographic position data (.txt).	Stephen (Contractor) T Bosse
Profileswithheaders_A87-2	Benthos Mesh Hydrophones with Triton Elics SBLogger	Printable seismic profiles with headers	Stephen (Contractor) T Bosse
SEGY_A87-2	Benthos Mesh Hydrophones with Triton Elics SBLogger	Digitally-converted seismic profiles, in SEG-Y format (.seg).	Stephen (Contractor) T Bosse