Field Activity 1978-027-FA

Identifier 1978-027-FA
Purpose Run seismic lines on and around Jeffreys Ledge to determine the origin and structure of some sediments surrounding Jeffreys Ledge and the structure and origin of the underlying sediments; observe the structure of the Presumpscot Formation flanking the western end of Jeffreys Ledge and determine if the deformation is related to a Late Wisconsin readvance of the continental ice sheet; and locate the offshore extension of the Clinton-Newbury and the Bloody Bluff faults.
Location Jeffreys Ledge, Gulf of Maine, Cape Ann, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Minisparker data: 250 km.
Platform
Asterias
Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1978-09-11
End Woods Hole, MA 1978-09-21
Bounds
West -70.8667
East -70.25
North 43
South 42.46667

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Eskenasy, Diane M.
Crew members
David H Mason
Scientist, Staff
Eskenasy, Diane M.
Scientist, Staff
Robert N. Oldale
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff USGS-Denver: Wallace Bothner, Andrew Shride and Robert Simpson

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Sparker, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's daily log of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, and track chart. Includes personnel and equipment list.
Sparker log Sparker log describing equipment configuration, data acquisition notes, ship movement, weather, and other cruise notes.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Del Norte 26 sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Del Norte hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker 3
Loran-C Navigation 2
Raytheon radar Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1978-027-FA-SE-001 Del Norte hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( MSP) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1978-027-FA-SE-001-01 Del Norte hydrophone scanned seismic record sections Nancy K. Soderberg
1978-027-FA-SE-002 Del Norte hydrophone microfilm of *SMALL CAN Nancy K. Soderberg
1978-027-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation trackline plot for field activity 78027 Nancy K. Soderberg
1978-027-FA-LN-001-01 Loran-C Cruise track chart including line numbers, days and 15-minute positions. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity