Field Activity 1969-003-FA

Identifier 1969-003-FA
Alternate names 939009, Phase I Leg B; K-1-69-GM; CORPUS 5
Purpose USGS-NAVOCEANO Co-op. seismics and coring.
Location western Gulf of Mexico, United States, Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Daily Log #5; Geophysics - 160 K seismics.
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Corpus Christi: Louis Garrison, Harold Krivoy; Menlo Park: Pat Patrick. Project = USGS-NAVOCEANO, USGS-NAVOCEANO
Related activities
1969-002-FA: Cruise legs
Platform
Elisha Kane
Length 285 feet 3 inches; beam 48 feet; draft 15 feet.
Itinerary
Start Corpus Christi, TX 1969-02-04
End Veracruz, Mexico 1969-02-25
Days in the field 24
Bounds
West -97.57
East -84.575
North 28.46
South 18.87

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Louis E. Garrison
Crew members
Louis E. Garrison
Scientist, Staff
Krivoy, Harold L.
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Robert H. Fedden - NAVOCEANO
Affiliate staff NAVOCEANO: Robert H. Fedden - Ch. Sci. (9310), Hank Enminger (9310), Herb Eppert (9310), Ken Olsen - proj. ch. KANE engineering, Carl Nellius - PST, Keith Kaufman - PST, Bill Curtis - oceanographer, Ernie Walters - ET, Gary Gilbert - oceanographer, Tom Hammond - Ch. ET, Jim Daniels - ET, Vic Yorke - math, John Sterrit - math, Dan Fraley - comp/ET, Dave Rigor - navigation, Bob Coulter - navigation, Dave Trafacanti - ET; Ray Estrellas - Teledyne; Menlo Park: Pat Patrick

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise log Chief Scientist's daily log of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, personnel activities, etc.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Loran-A Navigation (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 2
Omega navigation Navigation (no data reported)
Sextant Navigation (no data reported)
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 2
Echosounder Single Beam 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1969-003-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Trackchart image. Includes tracks from cruises A, B, C and D. Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-003-FA-LN-002 Loran-C Navigation data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-003-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( SPK) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-003-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-003-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Bathymetric data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy Echosounder Carolyn Hayashida Degnan

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity