1973-002-FA (CMHRP activity #451)

Field Activity 1973-002-FA

Identifier

1973-002-FA

Alternate names

Purpose

Collect multichannel continuous seismic reflection profiles across the Atlantic shelf, slope and continental rise to determine the underlying stratigraphic structure.

Location

Baltimore Canyon trough area, Atlantic continental shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

3 CDP lines: #1, 2, and 3.

Info derived

Morphology;

URL

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/1976-r.html

Platform

Gulf Seal

Length 154.58; beam 38 feet.

Itinerary

Start	(port not specified)	1973-05-26
End	(port not specified)	1973-08-09
Days in the field	20

Bounds

West	-75.65889511
East	-65.74439153
North	41.80589709
South	35.99578539

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

John Schlee

Crew members

Information specialist(s)

Soderberg, Nancy K.

Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

Digicon, Inc. - contractor

Affiliate staff

Digicon, Inc. - contractor

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type:	Navigation, Multichannel

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
USGS Memorandum	Field Data Configuration (pdf file) Line 1 geometry and field data configuration.
USGS Memorandum	***the filename implies line 2, but the content is the same as 1obslogs.pdf
USGS Memorandum	***the filename implies line 3, but the content is the same as 1obslogs.pdf and 2obslogs.pdf

Equipment used

Equipment	Usage description	Data types	Datasets
Loran-C		Navigation	5
Multichannel seismics		Multichannel	7

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1973-002-FA-LN-001-01	Loran-C	Contracted Atlantic Marine Multichannel Seismic Track Lines (pdf file) Generalized track map depicting several data sets including Lines 1-3 collected by Digicon aboard the GULF SEAL.	Alexandra M Fredericks
1973-002-FA-LN-002-01	Loran-C	Shotpoint Navigation (txt file) Line 1.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-LN-002-02	Loran-C	Shotpoint Navigation (txt file) Line 2.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-LN-002-03	Loran-C	Shotpoint Navigation (txt file) Line 3.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-LN-002-04	Loran-C	Shotpoint Navigation for all contracted lines	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-SE-001-01	Multichannel seismics	Film collection of LINE 1-3	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-SE-001-02	Multichannel seismics	Mylar, acetate and paper record sections of Lines 1, 2, and 3.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-SE-001-03	Multichannel seismics	CD ROM disk of 1-1 1,2,3SP101-1681NO LOGS, 1-2 4,5SP1682-2510NO LOGS, 1A-3 1,2,3SP1-1669NO LOGS, 1A-4 4,5,6SP1669-3207NO LOGS, 1A-5 7,8,9SP3207-4156NO LOGS, 2-1 1,2,3SP1-41147NO LOGS, 2-2 4,5,6SP41148-81746NO LOGS, 2-3 7,8,9SP1-110831NO LOGS, 2-4 B,C STACK SP1-6366NO LOGS, 3-1 1,2,3,4SP130-2315NOSTK,LOG, 3-2 5,6,7,8,9,10SP2315-4489NO, 3-3 11,12,13,14,15SP4490-6786, NAVOCEANO ATLANTIC PLOTS,	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-SE-001-04	Multichannel seismics	DEMUX SEGY data of lines 1 to 3	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-SE-001-05	Multichannel seismics	STACK SEGY data of lines 1 to 3	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-002-FA-SE-001-06	Multichannel seismics	Seismic lines 1, 1A, 3, and 3A scanned to SEGY format.	Matthew Arsenault
1973-002-FA-SE-002	Multichannel seismics	Collection of paper record displays of seismic data (unspecified) for line 3.	Nancy K. Soderberg