Field Activity 1969-004-FA

Identifier 1969-004-FA
Alternate names 939009, Phase I Leg C; K-2-69-GM
Location Gulf of Campeche, Mexico, western Gulf of Mexico, United States, Sigsbee Plain, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Bathymetric maps; Morphology; Sea floor map;
Comments Original Center People field contained: USGS-Corpus Christi: Louis Garrison - co-Ch. Sci., Henry Berryhill; USGS-Menlo Park: Harry Hill, Jack Lee, Mike Marlow, Bob Patrick, David Scholl, Richard Tagg. Project = USGS-NAVOCEANO, USGS-NAVOCEANO. Information about other equipment added from Foghorn: Marine Sciences-Teledyne Seismic Section Profiler with 2 200-ft streamers and Raytheon dry-paper recorder and unfiltered analog tape recorder;EDO Western 240A 3.5 kHz profiler with hull-mounted piezoelectric transducer and Raytheon PFT 193C recorder
Related activities
1969-002-FA: Cruise legs
Platform
Elisha Kane
Length 285 feet 3 inches; beam 48 feet; draft 15 feet.
Itinerary
Start Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Mexico 1969-03-05
End Galveston, TX 1969-03-23
Days in the field 19
Bounds
West -96.647
East -90.19
North 29.235
South 18.53

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
Henry Berryhill
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Robert H. Fedden - U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office
Affiliate staff Robert Fedden - co-Ch. Sci. - U.S. NavOceano; USGS-Menlo Park: Harry Hill, Jack Lee, Mike Marlow, Bob Patrick, David Scholl, Richard Tagg

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
Loran-A Navigation (no data reported)
Omega navigation Navigation 1
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
1969-004-FA-LN-001 Omega navigation Navigation data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-004-FA-SE-001-01 Single channel hydrophone Scanned image of Line C-22 Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-004-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1969-004-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Bathymetric data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
NGDC MGD77 data Echosounder Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity