| Identifier | 1980-011-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 80-G-5; 80-5 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Collection of sidescan data in the area south of the Mississippi delta on the upper continental slope. Collection of data on 4 Exxon tracts for installation of production platform. | ||||||||
| Location | Mississippi Delta, upper continental slope, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | 3.5 kHz: approx. 241.4 km; Sparker: 241.4 km. | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: USGS-Corpus Christi: Lou Garrison - Chief Scientist, Arnold Bouma, John West, Linda Massengill, Jo Ann Charba, James Willingham; USGS-Woods Hole: Barry Irwin, Janet Burke. Project = Delta Project, Delta Project Notes from the logbook in the data library "System pulled in. Probles Decca & Side Scan. Aborted" | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Louis E. Garrison | ||||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | USGS-New Orleans: Bill Sweet; David Prior, Coastal Studies, LSU; Kate Hadley, Exxon; John Lindsay, Exxon; Theo Duis, TAMU; Jon Young, Decca Navigation; Bobby Duke, Decca Navigation; Rhett Hamiter, LSU; Walker Winans, Coastal Studies, LSU |
| Data category: | Sonar, Seismics, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Sidescan, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Navigation, Single Beam |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| EG&G Model SMS 960 Seafloor Mapping System | Sidescan | (no data reported) | |
| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| Sparker | Sparker | (no data reported) | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 1 | |
| Acoustic backscatter sensors | Single Beam | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1980-011-FA-SE-001 | Single channel hydrophone | analog tape of seismic data | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1980-011-FA-LN-001 | Loran-C | Digital tape(s) of NV, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
