Field Activity 1981-028-FA

Identifier 1981-028-FA
Alternate names WF 81-2
Purpose Map the morphology of the canyon heads and adjacent shelf, identify types and map the extent of bedforms in and around canyon heads, outline the shallow structures of the canyon heads to define recent history, and map areas of sediment erosion and accumulation.
Location Lydonia Canyon, Oceanographer Canyon, Georges Bank area, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary 2.5 kHz: 89 km; Uniboom: 888 km; Sidescan: 401 km.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Dave Twichell - Ch. Sci.; Greg Miller, Glenn Greilich.
Platform
Whitefoot
tug
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1981-07-22
End Woods Hole, MA 1981-07-31
Days in the field 9
Bounds
West -68.25
East -67.49085366
North 40.75
South 40.2466903

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators David C Twichell
Crew members
Gregory K Miller
Scientist, Staff
David C Twichell
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Glenn Greilich

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report of ship movement, equipment, personnel, and a trackchart.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar Sidescan 1
EG&G 234 Boomer (no data reported)
Edo Western Sidescan and 2.5 kHz sub-bottom system Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan (no data reported)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 4
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1981-028-FA-SO-001 Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-028-FA-LN-001 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation trackline plot for field activity 81028 Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-028-FA-LN-001-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Cruise trackmap. Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-028-FA-LN-002 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Digital tape(s) of NV, NV-NSTAR, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-028-FA-LN-002-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation data recovered from 9 track tape Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-028-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( UNI) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-028-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity