1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2021-615-FA

Identifier 2021-615-FA
Also known as Great Salt Lake Paleoseismology
Purpose Examine paleoseismic evidence in the Great Salt Lake along Great Salt Lake Fault
Location Great Salt Lake, Utah
Summary Collected 38 cores and 63 chirp profiles.
Info derived seismic stratigraphy, core samples, dating, grain size
Projects
Platform
Parke Snavely
34'
Vehicles
MarFac; Ford 650 Box truck - White G71-03559
MarFac; Mac Semi G82-0099N
Itinerary
Start Salt Lake City, UT 2021-06-19
End Salt Lake City, UT 2021-07-02
Days in the field 14
Bounds
West -113.49859715
East -111.75095558
North 41.85051126
South 40.33869384
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Organization
USGS, Earthquake Hazards
, CA
Principal investigators Daniel Brothers
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Alicia F Balster-gee
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Chris DuRoss (EHP Golden), Ryan Gold (EHP Golden), Rich Briggs (EHP Golden)

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sampling
Data type: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
multichannel Sparker (no data reported)
Mini sparker Sparker (no data reported)
0.5-16 kHz receiver Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
0.5-16 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
core Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity