Field Activity 1985-035-FA

Identifier 1985-035-FA
Alternate names 85-G-11
Purpose Primary objectives were to acquire: 1) shallow to intermediate depth penetration seismic reflection data with USGS seismic reflection system; 2) intermediate to deep depth penetration wide-angle seismic reflection and refraction data with the USGS Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) system; and 3) high-quality gravity and navigation data.
Location Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Seismic reflection/refraction, gravity, magnetic, and navigation data acquired. Multichannel seismic reflection (MCS): 11 lines, totaling 1305 km; OBSes: 8 lines, 28 deployments; Gravity-box surveys for navigation-gravity calibration: 2.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments The cruise report was not specific as to what personnel were on the ship. Names were taken from the report summary that appeared to have some cruise function. Original Center People field contained: Kim Klitgord, Chief Scientist; Greg Miller, seismic acquisition systems; Dave Nichols, seismic acquisition systems; Tom O'Brien, seismic acquisition systems; David Mason, air-gun compressor system; Barry Irwin, Navigation/gravity systems; Jim Dodd, Navigation/gravity systems; Corina Savela, Navigation/gravity systems; David Leeds, GFA; Sarah Dunlap, GFA; Debbie Hutchinson; Anne Trehu. Project = USGS Deep Crustal Program, USGS Deep Crustal Program
Platform
Gyre
Length 182 feet; beam 36 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1985-10-06
End Woods Hole, MA 1985-11-04
Days in the field 29
Bounds
West -70.15869141
East -66.59186768
North 44.31773487
South 41.36123522

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kim D. Klitgord
Crew members
Gregory K Miller
Scientist, Staff
Deborah R Hutchinson
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
David H Mason
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Kim D. Klitgord
Scientist, Staff
James Dodd
Scientist, Staff
Leeds, David
Scientist, Staff
Savela, Corina
Scientist, Staff
Anne M. Trehu
Scientist, Staff
Dunlap, Sarah
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Wally Bothner - UNH; John Brooks - GFA, UNH; John Unger - USGS-Reston; Oscar Febres-Cordero - air-gun compressor system, U. Texas-Austin; David Taylor - USGS-Denver; David Stewart - USGS-Reston; Charlie McClennen - Colgate Univ.; James McCullough - WHOI; David Turner - LaCoste Romberg Co.

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation
Data type: Multichannel, Magnetics, Gravity, Navigation, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonobuoy

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report with cruise summary, chronology of cruise, personnel, acquisition systems, seismic line information including start, end, waypoints and equipment description, and a trackmap.
Data inventory Cruise Curator's field data inventory.
Navigation log Navigation log including gravity data start and end times, cruise chronology, Loran log with additional comments with regards to seismic shots. The logbook also contains MCS line information and OBS locations.
Geophysics log Geophysics watchstander's log with start and end of lines and tapes; OBS, magnetometer, airgun and streamer deployments and recoveries; equipment configuration and performance notes; data acquisition notes.
Observer log DFS-V Technician's observer's marine report with start and end of files, lines, and tapes; parity; equipment configuration and performance; data acquisition notes
Observer log DFS-V Technician's and Watchstanders' observer's daily report including ship configuration, start and end of files, lines, and tapes; equipment configuration and performance; data acquisition notes.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Multichannel seismics Multichannel 4
Marine magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity (no data reported)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation (no data reported)
Ocean Bottom Seismometer Ocean Bottom Seismometer (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Seismic refraction Sonobuoy (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 4
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Gyro compass Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1985-035-FA-SE-002 Multichannel seismics microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-SE-003-01 Multichannel seismics DEMUX SEG-Y Data for Lines 1 - 11 recovered from 9 track tape Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-SE-003-02 Multichannel seismics STACK SEG-Y Data for Lines 1 - 11 recovered from 9 track tape Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-SO-001 Multichannel seismics microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 12K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-GP-001-01 Loran-C Raw navigation recovered from 9 track tape Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-GP-001-02 Loran-C Raw navigation recovered from 9 track tape Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-GP-001-03 Loran-C Cruise trackline data including latitude, longitude, shot number, date, and time. Nancy K. Soderberg
1985-035-FA-LN-002 Loran-C Digital tape(s) of GR, NV, CPIO-OCABU, OBS, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity