Field Activity 1973-006-FA

Identifier 1973-006-FA
Purpose Geophysical survey.
Location Atlantic continental margin, Hydrographer Canyon, offshore Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, South Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Collected seismic profiles, bathymetry, gravity, and magnetics.
Platform
Evergreen
Length 180 feet; beam 37 feet.
Itinerary
Start New London, CT 1973-10-16
End Savannah, GA 1973-10-28
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -80
East -69
North 41.1
South 31.6

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William P DillonJohn Hathaway
Crew members
William P Dillon
Scientist, Staff
John Hathaway
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff S.K. Harding - watchstander; H.R. Dillon - watchstander; W.K. Gilman - watchstander; James H. Manuel - US Coast Guard, QM2

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Air gun Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
Marine magnetometer Magnetics 1
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity 1
Loran-C Navigation 2
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 3

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1973-006-FA-GP-001 Marine magnetometer Digital tapes of NV OR MG: inventory #1264 and 1265. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-006-FA-GP-002 Gravity meter (wh) Digital tapes of NV OR MG: inventory #1264 and 1265. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-006-FA-LN-001-01 Loran-C Generalized track chart for southern portion of field work. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-006-FA-LN-002 Loran-C Digital tapes of NV OR MG: inventory #1264 and 1265. Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-006-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-006-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-006-FA-SE-003 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity