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Field Activity 1989-018-FA

Identifier 1989-018-FA
Alternate names Leg 1
Purpose The objectives are to determine the shallow morphostratigraphy of the Louisiana barrier delta plain using seismic and core information.
Location Louisiana, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Information derived from pre-cruise report; no post-cruise report found.
Platform
Acadiana
Length 58 feet
Itinerary
Start Cocodrie, LA 1989-07-24
End Cocodrie, LA 1989-07-28
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -95
East -88
North 33.5
South 28

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators S. Jeffress Williams
Crew members
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Shea Penland (LGS - Baton Rouge); Randy McBride (LGS - Baton Rouge)
Affiliate staff Jeff Williams (USGS-Reston); Jack Kindinger (USGS-St. Petersburg); Mike Ierardi (USGS-Reston); Shea Penland (LGS - Baton Rouge), Randy McBride (LGS - Baton Rouge), David Pope (LGS - Baton Rouge), Paul Conner (LGS - Baton Rouge), Steven Anderson (LGS - Baton Rouge), Karen Ramsey (LGS - Baton Rouge)

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Boomer, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
ORE GeoPulse Boomer (no data reported)
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker (no data reported)
ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity