| Identifier | 1979-034-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect GLORIA sidescan sonar profiles and seismic reflection profiles to be used to map the morphology of the continental slope and upper rise in the four study areas. | ||||||||
| Location | Georges Bank, Hudson Canyon, Baltimore Canyon, Cape Hatteras, Blake Escarpment, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | GLORIA data: 5543 km; 10 kHz data: 5543 km; Airgun data: 5450 km; Gravity data: 5907 km. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Morphology; | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David C Twichell | ||||||||||||
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| Affiliate principal | Paul Teleki - USGS-Reston; Dave Roberts - IOS | ||||||||||||
| Affiliate staff | USGS-Reston, VA: P. Teleki, F. Keer, F. Musialowski; Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, UK: D. Roberts, M. Somers, J. Revie, S. Smith, M. Beney, R. Robinson, R. Lloyd |
| Data category: | Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar |
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| Data type: | Gravity, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sidescan, 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 trackmaps. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| GLORIA sidescan | Sidescan | 1 | |
| Gravity meter (wh) | Gravity | (no data reported) | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 2 | |
| GPS (wh) | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Air gun | Air Gun / Water Gun | (no data reported) | |
| 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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| 1979-034-FA-SO-001 | GLORIA sidescan | microfilm of W/NAV | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-034-FA-LN-001 | Loran-C | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79034 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-034-FA-LN-002 | Loran-C | Digital tape(s) of NV, NV,BT-FAA, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-034-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( E/S) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-034-FA-SE-002 | Single channel hydrophone | microfilm of W/NAV | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-034-FA-SE-003 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-034-FA-BA-001 | 12 kHz | Digital tape(s) of NV, NV,BT-FAA, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
