Field Activity 2014-645-FA

Identifier 2014-645-FA
Purpose low-energy, high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection survey offshore southern California to assess the earthquake and submarine landslide hazards
Location Southern California Borderlands
Summary raw data Sproul_2014 on FAD
Info derived seismic stratigraphy, fault/basin structure, tectonic deformation
Comments Cruise will be aboard the R/V Robert Gordon Sproul using 48-ch MCS streamer, SC single channel 500 joule acoustic sparker from Woods Hole and and 512 chirp from PCMG. Chuck Worley of WHSC will also participating
Projects
Platform
Robert Gordon Sproul
Length: 125 feet; Beam: 32 feet.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start San Diego, California 2014-11-12
End San Diego, California 2014-11-25
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -120.443
East -117.26803153
North 34.22542902
South 32.75509185

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Daniel Brothers
Crew members
Jackson E Currie
Scientist, Staff
Robert M Wyland
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
James E Conrad
Specialist, Information
Ray W Sliter
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Multichannel, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Multichannel, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Bubble Gun, Air Gun / Water Gun, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sonobuoy (no data reported)
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
multichannel Multichannel 1
512 chirp Sub Bottom Profiler 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Multichannel sparker and minisparker seismic-reflection data of USGS field activity 2014-645-FA collected in the outer Santa Barbara Channel, California, between 2014-11-12 to 2014-11-25 (ver. 2.0, March 2020) multichannel This data release contains 35 multichannel sparker and 24 multichannel minisparker seismic reflection (MCS) profiles that were collected in November of 2014 from the Catalina and Santa Cruz Basins offshore southern California by the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific and Coastal Marine Science Center. Data were collected aboard the University of California’s R/V Robert Gordon Sproul on USGS cruise 2014-645-FA. MCS profiles were collected to assess earthquake and submarine landslide hazards offshore southern California. Alicia F Balster-gee
Chirp seismic-reflection data of USGS field activity 2014-645-FA collected in the outer Santa Barbara Channel, California, between 2014-11-12 to 2014-11-25 (ver. 2.0, March 2020) 512 chirp This data release contains 43 chirp sub-bottom profiles that were collected in November of 2014 from the Catalina and Santa Cruz Basins offshore southern California by the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific and Coastal Marine Science Center. Data were collected aboard the University of California’s R/V Robert Gordon Sproul on USGS cruise 2014-645-FA. Chirp profiles were collected to assess earthquake and submarine landslide hazards offshore southern California. Alicia F Balster-gee

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity