1970-001-FA (CMHRP activity #420)

Field Activity 1970-001-FA

Identifier

1970-001-FA

Alternate names

DSDP Leg 10; CORPUS 9

Location

Sigsbee Abyssal Plain, U.S. continental shelf, Sigsbee Scarp, Vera Cruz Gap, Campeche Scarp, Yucatan Shelf, Catoche Tongue, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

DSDP drill holes #85-97.

Info derived

Grain size analysis; Morphology;

Comments

Project = Deep Sea Drilling Project, Deep Sea Drilling Project

URL

http://www.deepseadrilling.org/10/dsdp_toc.htm

Platform

Glomar Challenger

400 feet

Itinerary

Start	Galveston, TX	1970-02-13
End	Miami, FL	1970-04-05
Days in the field	50

Bounds

West	-95.99803323
East	-83.93554688
North	26.15979457
South	20.52307375

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Kendall Dickenson

Crew members

Affiliate staff

J. Lamar Worzel - LDGO, Co-Chief Sci.; William Bryant - Texas A&M, Co-Chief Sci.

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type:	Navigation, Geology

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise Report	Minimal information.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Grab sampler	Biology, Geology	(no data reported)
Loran-C	Navigation	1
Rotary core	Geology	1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1970-001-FA-LN-001	Loran-C	station locations	Nancy K. Soderberg
1970-001-FA-SC-001	Rotary core	Core descriptions	PARTNER