| Identifier | 1979-015-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | GS 7903-4 | ||||||||
| Purpose | High-resolution seismic profiling of continental slope to study potential geologic hazards to exploration and development, specifically bottom instability due to slumping or sliding. | ||||||||
| Location | continental slope off New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic outer continental shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Airgun (40 cu. in.): 1555 km; Minisparker: 1750 km; 3.5 kHz: 1780 km; Sidescan: 70 km; Deep hydrophone: 105 km; Gravity: 2565 km; Magnetics (total field): 1520. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map; Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Jim Robb - Ch. Sci., Dave Twichell - watch, John C. Hampson - watch, Wayne Mack Ferrebee - watch, Lawrence Poppe - watch, Steven Schertzer - watch, F. Mitchell Hill - watch, Lester North - INS nav., Alan Goodman - tech., Gerard McCarthy - tech., John Larson - tech., Barry Irwin - INS nav., James Dodd - INS nav., Michael Goldstein - INS nav. Project = Mid-Atlantic OCS Environmental Assessment (BLM), Mid-Atlantic OCS Environmental Assessment (BLM) | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | James Robb | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | Steven Schertzer - watch, F. Mitchell Hill - watch, Gerard McCarthy - tech. |
| 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, Sidescan, Single Beam |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, data acquisition notes, cruise narrative, and track chart. |
| Data inventory | Cruise curator's field data inventory describing seismic analog tapes, seismic and sidescan paper profiles, logs, trackcharts and navigation cassettes. |
| Navigation log | Watchstanders' navigation logbooks for NorthStar Navigation and Inegrated Navigation System (INS)including time, latitude, longitude, course, speed, observations, start and end of lines, etc. |
| 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) | |
| ORE sidescan | Sidescan | 1 | |
| LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 | Gravity | 2 | |
| Geometrics G-856 magnetometer | Magnetics | 2 | |
| Integrated Navigation System | Navigation | 3 | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 3 | |
| 12 kHz | Single Beam | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1979-015-FA-SO-001 | ORE sidescan | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-GP-002 | LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 | Digital tape(s) of NV, MG, NV,BT-LAT/LON, GR-L&R, NV-INS, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-GP-002-01 | LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 | Geophysical data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-GP-001 | Geometrics G-856 magnetometer | Digital tape(s) of NV, MG, NV,BT-LAT/LON, GR-L&R, NV-INS, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-GP-001-01 | Geometrics G-856 magnetometer | Geophysical data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-LN-001 | Integrated Navigation System | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79015 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-LN-002 | Integrated Navigation System | Digital tape(s) of NV, MG, NV,BT-LAT/LON, GR-L&R, NV-INS, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-LN-002-01 | Integrated Navigation System | Zip archive of Navigation data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-015-FA-BA-001 | 12 kHz | Digital tape(s) of NV, MG, NV,BT-LAT/LON, GR-L&R, NV-INS, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
