Field Activity 1972-004-FA

Identifier 1972-004-FA
Alternate names HUNT 02; Leg II
Purpose Cruise was the second part of the search for drilling sites along the north flank of Georges Bank.
Location Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Gravity over Georges Bank area was successfully measured at 109 stations. Those data and an interpretation are reported in Hendricks and Robb, 1973.
Related activities
1972-003-FA: Cruise legs
Platform
Hunt
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1972-08-04
End (port not specified) 1972-08-14
Bounds
West -69.4020752
East -66.57126409
North 42.48380435
South 40.69729901

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators James Robb
Crew members
William P Dillon
Scientist, Staff
Chuck O'Hara
Scientist, Staff
Hall, Raymond E.
Scientist, Staff
Frank Jennings
Scientist, Staff
Ruppel, Byron
Scientist, Staff
Hendricks, John
Scientist, Staff
James Robb
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Wallace Bothner - UNH; Nathaniel Richardson - Republic of Liberia; Norman Buckley - GFA, Philip Clark - GFA, David Davis - GFA; Gary Stuckey - GFA, Robert White - PST

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Boomer, Sonobuoy, Sidescan

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise log Field log containing Loran-C navigation positions, sonobouy, gravity meter, magnetometer, CSP airgun, and 3.5 kHz Uniboom data acquisition notes.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 Gravity (no data reported)
Boomer Boomer (no data reported)
Marine magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
Seismic refraction Sonobuoy 1
Loran-C Navigation 2
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 2
EG&G Model 260 sidescan sonar Sidescan 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1972-004-FA-LN-001-02 Seismic refraction Zip archive containing Legs 2 and 3 sonobuoy refraction profiles trackline map. Nancy K. Soderberg
1972-004-FA-LN-001-01 Loran-C Track map for Site 1, August 11, 1972 depicting Continuous Seismic Profiling (CSP) lines, 3.5 kHz seismics lines, magnetics, and Sonobuoy traverses. Nancy K. Soderberg
1972-004-FA-NL-001-01 Loran-C Field log containing Loran-C navigation positions, sonobuoy, gravity meter, magnetometer, CSP airgun, and 3.5 kHz Uniboom data acquisition notes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1972-004-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1972-004-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1972-004-FA-SO-001 EG&G Model 260 sidescan sonar Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity