| Identifier | 1979-012-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | GS 7903-2, Leg 2 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Investigate the structure and origin of Stellwagen Bank and Stellwagen Basin, locate the offshore extensions of the Clinton-Newbury and Bloody Bluff faults, and connect known Cretaceous and Jurassic seismic stratigraphy south of the New England seamounts with that north of the seamounts. | ||||||||
| Location | western Gulf of Maine, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Continuous profiling with airgun, Uniboom, 3.5 kHz, gravimeter, and magnetometer: 1260 km. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Bob Oldale - Ch. Sci., Robert Bowles - Nav., James Dodd - Nav., David Egelson, Diane Eskenasy - Cruise Curator, Alan Goodman - Tech., Barry Irwin - Tech., Kim Klitgord, John Larson - Tech., David Mason - Tech., Charles O'Hara, Valerie Paskevich - Nav. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Robert N. Oldale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | Wallace Bothner - UNH/USGS-Denver; Matthew Oldale - Guest Scientist, Ball State University; Gretchen Rich - Guest Scientist, UNH; Robert Simpson - USGS-Denver |
| Data category: | Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Cruise Data Curator's report describing purpose, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, and trackmap. |
| Cruise log | Watchstanders' log containing time and position data, acquisition equipment, configuration and settings, start and end of Uniboom, airgun, and 3.5 kHz, magnetometer and gravity lines, seismic recorder, magnetometer and compressor maintenance. |
| Navigation log | Northstar and Integrated Navigation System log containing day and time, ship speed, latitude and longitude, start and end of lines, equipment performance, satellite update quality. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Air gun | Air Gun / Water Gun | (no data reported) | |
| Boomer | Boomer | (no data reported) | |
| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| Marine magnetometer | Magnetics | 2 | |
| Gravity meter (wh) | Gravity | 2 | |
| Integrated Navigation System | Navigation | 5 | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 3 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1979-012-FA-GP-001 | Marine magnetometer | Digital tapes of GR-BELL, GR, MG, MG-RAW 20 SEC, MG-RAW 1 MIN, GR-L&R, and NV/GR/VN/VE/RWG data: inv. # 0983, 1090, 1429, 1978, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2315, 2327, 2479, 2631, and 3918. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-GP-002-01 | Marine magnetometer | Gravity and Magnetic data recovered from 9 track tape | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-GP-001-01 | Gravity meter (wh) | Gravity and Magnetic data recovered from 9 track tape | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-GP-002 | Gravity meter (wh) | Digital tapes of GR-BELL, GR, MG, MG-RAW 20 SEC, MG-RAW 1 MIN, GR-L&R, and NV/GR/VN/VE/RWG data: inv. # 0983, 1090, 1429, 1978, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2315, 2327, 2479, 2631, and 3918. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-LN-001 | Integrated Navigation System | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79012 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-LN-001-01 | Integrated Navigation System | Drafted track map depicting seismic lines including Uniboom for FA 79012 (GILLIS 7903-2) and Uniboom seismic track lines for FA 80010 (ASTERIAS 80-6A). | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-LN-002 | Integrated Navigation System | Digital tapes of NV, NV-INS, NV-FINAL, NV 5 MIN, NV 20 SEC, NV 1 MIN, NV/GR/VN/VE/RWG, and NV-INS-FINAL data: 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1959, 1978, 2000, 2001, 2046, 2631, 2778, 2779, 2780, 2781, and 2782. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-LN-002-01 | Integrated Navigation System | Nav. Tape 1941 (txt) Final FIXE navigation. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-LN-002-02 | Integrated Navigation System | Navigation data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of W/NAV | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-012-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
