| Identifier | 1977-024-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | AST-7-77 | ||||||||
| Purpose | The cooperative marine geologic program provides the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an accounting and geological evaluation of the lands that lie submerged beneath its coastal waters. Principal objectives include detailed mapping of bottom and sub-bottom geological features, assessment of potential mineral resources, feasibility and environmental impact studies related to offshore mining of sand and gravel, and environmental considerations relative to offshore disposal of solid waste material. | ||||||||
| Location | eastern Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Uniboom: 181 km. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Chuck O'Hara (Ch. Sci.); Wayne M. Ferrebee (Geologist); Diane Eskanasy (Geological Field Assistant); Alan Goodman (Electronic Technician). | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Chuck O'Hara | ||||||||
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| Data category: | Location-Elevation, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Navigation, Boomer |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's daily log of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, personnel, track map. |
| Uniboom log | Uniboom log containing line number, time, latitude, longitude, data acquisition and equipment performance notes, etc. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| EG&G 234 | Boomer | (no data reported) | |
| Epsco LORAN-C | Navigation | 3 | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 6 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1977-024-FA-LN-001 | Epsco LORAN-C | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 77024 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-LN-001-01 | Epsco LORAN-C | Navigation Track Map (pdf file) Trackline map of ship movement with times and line numbers. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-LN-001-02 | Epsco LORAN-C | Composite Track Map (pdf file) Composite Nantucket Sound trackline map from ASTERIAS June (FA 76021) and October (FA 76039) 1976 and July 1977 (FA 77024) containing ship movement with times and line numbers. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-NL-001-02 | Single channel hydrophone | Uniboom log containing line number, time, latitude, longitude, data acquisition and equipment performance notes, etc. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | film collection of E. NANT SND | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( UNI) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-SE-002-01 | Single channel hydrophone | Scanned seismic record sections | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-SE-002-02 | Single channel hydrophone | Line List | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1977-024-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
