The objective of this program is to apply the land-use concept to the sea floor of the Texas inner shelf and to establish an integrated base of geologic data as background for the investigation for shoreline engineering projects, power plant sitings, and port sitings.
Location
South Texas inner continental shelf, Matagorda Bay, Texas, United States, Rio Grande, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary
Approximately 3340 km of minisparker and 1185 km of 3.5 kHz records were obtained. Ship track: 3500 km; Continuous data: 3340 km minisparker 1.0, 3000 km minisparker 0.5, 1185 km 3.5 kHz.
Info derived
Morphology;
Comments
This cruise was made as the first step in obtaining this information and to provide information needed to judiciously select sites for subsequent sampling. Precision navigation was provided by Lorac Services, Inc. Time for navigation was in the 90 degree meridian. Original Center People field contained: Chuck Holmes, Michael Dorsey, Ronald Miller, Robert Vitaglione, Cary Pyle, Scotty Heald, and Felicity Ohrm.
Project = Texas Co-op, Texas Co-op
