Field Activity 1969-002-FA

Identifier 1969-002-FA
Alternate names 939009, Phase I Leg A; K-0-69-GM
Location northern Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Comments Shake down cruise, Leg A, Phase I. Project = Geologic structures, Gulf of Mexico basin, Geologic structures, Gulf of Mexico basin test Foghorn indicates the system used was a sparker.
Related activities
1969-003-FA: Cruise legs
1969-004-FA: Cruise legs
1969-005-FA: Cruise legs
Platform
Elisha Kane
Length 285 feet 3 inches; beam 48 feet; draft 15 feet.
Itinerary
Start Bayonne 1969-01-22
End Corpus Christi, TX 1969-01-28
Bounds
West -96.3667
East -81.76666
North 28.38333
South 23.93333

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Louis E. Garrison
Crew members
Affiliate principal Robert Fedden - NavOceano

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Single Beam, Sparker

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam 2
Loran-C Navigation 1
Seismic reflection Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1969-002-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Bathymetric Data on Infobank Nancy K. Soderberg
NGDC MGD77 data Echosounder Linda P McCarthy
1969-002-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation data located at InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-002-FA-SE-001 Seismic reflection Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( SPK) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity