1979-016-FA (CMHRP activity #664)

Field Activity 1979-016-FA

Identifier

1979-016-FA

Alternate names

GS 7903-5; GS-79-3-5

Purpose

Conduct a geophysical survey from Norfolk, VA, to Charleston, SC.

Location

Middle Atlantic Bight, Blake Escarpment, South Atlantic Continental Shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

XBT: 4; Sonobuoys: 7; Magnetics; Gravity; Seismic lines: 26.

Info derived

Morphology;

Comments

No cruise report; information gleaned from ship logs and field data inventory. Original Center People field contained: Dick Sylwester, Barry Irwin, Mike Goldstein, Bob Bowles, Bob Douthard, Jerry McCarthy, Kathy Kent, Charlie Paull, Debbie Hutchinson.

Platform

James M Gilliss

208 feet

Itinerary

Start	Norfolk, VA	1979-07-13
End	Charleston, SC	1979-08-01
Days in the field	20

Bounds

West	-79.1015625
East	-73.9524951
North	37.09218745
South	28.76551938

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

William P DillonJohn Grow

Crew members

Deborah R Hutchinson	Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin	Scientist, Staff
Robert Bowles	Scientist, Staff
Goldstein, Michael	Scientist, Staff
Kathleen Kent	Scientist, Staff
McCarthy, Jerry	Scientist, Staff
Paull, Charles	Scientist, Staff
Richard Sylwester	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate staff

Bob Douthard; U. Miami: Mark Carle; WHOI: Dave Mason, Tom O'Brien, Dan Shaughnessy

Data types and categories

Data category:	Seismics, Electro-Magnetic, Environmental Data, Location-Elevation
Data type:	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Gravity, Sonobuoy, Temperature, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Air gun	Air Gun / Water Gun	(no data reported)
SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker	5
LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179	Gravity	1
Seismic refraction	Sonobuoy	(no data reported)
XBT	Temperature	(no data reported)
Integrated Navigation System	Navigation	3

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1979-016-FA-SE-001	SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones	Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-SE-002	SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones	microfilm of	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-SE-003	SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones	analog tape of seismic data	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-SE-004-01	SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones	Paper record section of Lines 1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-SE-004-02	SEI streamer with 40 MD5 hydrophones	SEGY data files	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-GP-001	LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179	Digital tape(s) of NV, NV-INS, NV-INS,GR,MG, GR-L&R, NV-INS-FINAL,	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-LN-001	Integrated Navigation System	Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79016	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-LN-002	Integrated Navigation System	Digital tape(s) of NV, NV-INS, NV-INS,GR,MG, GR-L&R, NV-INS-FINAL,	Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-016-FA-LN-002-01	Integrated Navigation System	Zip archive of Navigation Data	Nancy K. Soderberg