| Identifier | 1978-012-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Map the surface character, thickness and extent of the Mud Patch sediment lens to define the origin and present processes responsible for the development of this anomalous sediment deposit. | ||||||||
| Location | Block Canyon, Atlantis Canyon, Mud Patch, southern New England continental shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | No sidescan lines 1-5; equipment problems. Huntec boomer: 941 km; Klein sidescan sonar: 673 km; EDO Western 60 kHz echo sounder: 941 km. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Dave Twichell - Ch. Sci., Barry Irwin. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David C Twichell | ||||
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| Affiliate staff | Univ. Delaware students: Dennis Bebel, Tom Crosby, Kathy Kent, Gary Snyder, Marion Swincki; Offshore Navigation, Inc. technicians: John Barnard, Mike Coster, Larry Matson; Huntec technician: Dave Tullett; US Navy engineer: Nathan (Bing) Fuller |
| Data category: | Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar |
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| Data type: | Navigation, Boomer, Sidescan |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's cruise report listing personnel, equipment, including a seismic line summary and a trackmap. |
| Data log | Chief Scientist's handwritten cruise log. Has a data log of data on the paper rolls for Huntec, side scan and echo sounder. |
| Geophysics log | Log of geophysics line acquisition information, primarily associated navigation. |
| Bridge log | Navigation Log (pdf file) Bridge Loran log. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Klein 531 sidescan | Sidescan | 2 | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 3 | |
| Boomer | Boomer | (no data reported) | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 2 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1978-012-FA-SO-001 | Klein 531 sidescan | Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1978-012-FA-SO-002 | Klein 531 sidescan | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1978-012-FA-LN-001 | Loran-C | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 78012 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1978-012-FA-LN-001-01 | Loran-C | Track map with tracklines, dates and times. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1978-012-FA-NL-001-04 | Loran-C | Navigation Log (pdf file) Bridge Loran log. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1978-012-FA-NL-001-03 | Single channel hydrophone | Seismics log. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1978-012-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
