Field Activity 1976-036-FA

Identifier 1976-036-FA
Alternate names FAY 023
Purpose Study the shallow sedimentary structure south and east of southern Massachusetts and study the magnetics and gravity in these areas and in the vicinity of Great South Channel and Cape Ann.
Location Cape Ann, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, Great South Channel, Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Sparker: 1200 km; Airgun: 1200 km; Magnetics: 1200 km; Gravity: 1200 km.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Bob Oldale - Ch. Sci.; Wallace Mike Bothner - seismics, J. Donlavey - seismics, Dennis Edwards - tech., Wayne Mac Ferrebee - seismics, Barry Irwin - navigation, Kathleen Kent - navigation, Nicholas Lefteriou - tech., Ralph Lewis - navigation, Donald Moller - navigation, Lin Morse - seismics, Perry Parks - tech., Elizabeth Winget - seismics.
URL
Platform
Fay
176 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1976-09-12
End Woods Hole, MA 1976-09-17
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -71.75
East -68
North 43
South 40

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Robert N. Oldale
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Dennis Edwards
Scientist, Staff
Ferrebee, Wayne
Scientist, Staff
Parks, Perry
Scientist, Staff
Winget, Elizabeth
Scientist, Staff
Kathleen Kent
Scientist, Staff
Lewis, Ralph
Scientist, Staff
Robert N. Oldale
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Wallace Bothner - seismics, J. Donlavey - seismics, Nicholas Lefteriou - tech., Donald Moller - navigation, Lin Morse - seismics,Elizabeth Winget - seismics; Paul Bereznak - navigation, Western Geophysical Corp.; James Loughlin - seismics, Manomet Wildlife Refuge

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Brief cruise memo of cruise summary, personnel list and their duties, and a simple trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Air gun Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
Marine magnetometer Magnetics 1
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity 1
Integrated Navigation System Navigation 4
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 5
Echosounder Single Beam 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1976-036-FA-GP-002 Marine magnetometer Digital tapes of GR data: inv. # 1337. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-GP-001 Gravity meter (wh) Digital tapes of GR data: inv. # 1337. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-LN-001-01 Integrated Navigation System Field Track Map (pdf file) Hand-drawn field track map with line numbers and half hour ticks. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-LN-001-02 Integrated Navigation System Final Track Map (pdf file) Drafted track map with line numbers and 5 minute fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-LN-001-03 Integrated Navigation System Final Track Map (pdf file) Computer-plotted track map with dates and hourly fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-LN-002-01 Integrated Navigation System Navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone film collection of AIR,MSP Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-SE-001-01 Single channel hydrophone Electronic scans of complete survey-paper profiles. Linda P McCarthy
1976-036-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( MSP) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-SE-003 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of LINES 4-19, 1-19 Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-SE-004 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-036-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Digital tapes of BT data: inv. # 0993, 0994, 1007, and 1410. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity