| Identifier | 1979-013-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | GS-7903-3 | ||||||||
| Purpose | 1. Determine location, extent, morphology, and internal geometry of mass sediment movement (slumps, slides) on the continental slope off New England using high-resolution geophysical methods (14.5 days). 2. Study and correlate stratigraphy of Jurassic and Cretaceous strata north and south of the New England sea mount chain using geophysical methods (3 days). | ||||||||
| Location | New England Atlantic outer continental shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Overall data quality is excellent, with good resolution and penetration. The data show much slumping on the continental slope between 500 and 2000 m water depth. Many displaced slump bodies occur near the base of the continental slope and on the upper continental rise. Slump study - 3.5 kHz/Minisparker/40 cu. in. airgun: 3257 km; Deep Stratigraphy - 3.5 kHz/Minisparker/500,160 cu. in. airguns: 775 km; Gravity: 4032 km; Magnetics: 4032 km. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: John Aaron - Ch. Sci., Richard Sylwester, Kim Klitgord, Gerard McCarthy, Barry Irwin, James Dodd, David Egelson, David Mason, Valerie Paskevich, John Hampson, Kathy Scanlon, John Larson, Robert Douthart. Project = North Atlantic OCS Environmental Assessment, North Atlantic OCS Environmental Assessment | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | John M. Aaron | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | Gerard McCarthy, Robert Douthart; Kurt Grove - USGS-San Juan |
| Data category: | Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar |
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| Data type: | Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's cruise report and daily log of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes and a trackmap. |
| Cruise log | Watchstanders' daily log of ship movement, personnel, equipment configuration, and data acquisition notes, weather observations, 15 minute fixes, latitude and longitude, ship speed and bearing. |
| Navigation log | NorthStar Navigation and Integrated Navigation System (INS) navigation systems logbooks including time, latitude, longitude, course and speed, start and end of lines, observations, etc. |
| Data inventory | Cruise Curator's Field Data Inventory describing media, data type and quantity, etc. for 3.5kHz, sparker and airgun profiles, magnetometer stripchart, sparker, airgun, 3.5kHz analog tapes, Raytheon airgun monitor, and airgun tape monitor. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Air gun | Air Gun / Water Gun | (no data reported) | |
| Teledyne single-channel 300-500J 40-tip minisparker | Sparker | (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 | 4 | |
| 12 kHz | Single Beam | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1979-013-FA-GP-001 | Marine magnetometer | Digital tape(s) of BT, NV-INS, NV-FINAL, NV,GR,MG, GR-L&R, NV,GR,VN,VE,RWG, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-GP-002-01 | Marine magnetometer | Geophysical data | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-GP-001-01 | Gravity meter (wh) | Geophysical data | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-GP-002 | Gravity meter (wh) | Digital tape(s) of BT, NV-INS, NV-FINAL, NV,GR,MG, GR-L&R, NV,GR,VN,VE,RWG, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-013-FA-LN-001 | Integrated Navigation System | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79013 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-013-FA-LN-002 | Integrated Navigation System | Digital tape(s) of BT, NV-INS, NV-FINAL, NV,GR,MG, GR-L&R, NV,GR,VN,VE,RWG, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-013-FA-LN-002-01 | Integrated Navigation System | Nav. Tape 1936 (txt) Final FIXE navigation. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-013-FA-LN-002-02 | Integrated Navigation System | Zip archive of individual line navigation | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-013-FA-NL-001-04 | Integrated Navigation System | NorthStar Navigation and Integrated Navigation System (INS) navigation systems logbooks including time, latitude, longitude, course and speed, start and end of lines, observations, etc. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-013-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data (3.5 kHz, minisparker, and airgun) | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-SE-001-01 | Single channel hydrophone | Electronic scans of some paper seismic profiles (3.5 kHz, minisparker, and airgun) | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Linda P McCarthy |
| 1979-013-FA-BA-001 | 12 kHz | Digital tape(s) of BT, NV-INS, NV-FINAL, NV,GR,MG, GR-L&R, NV,GR,VN,VE,RWG, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Linda P McCarthy |
