| Identifier | 1990-003-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | Leg 2, F-90-4, F490GM | ||||||||
| Purpose | To study recent sedimentary processes on the Mississippi Fan and along the base of the Florida Escarpment. | ||||||||
| Location | Mississippi Fan, Florida Escarpment, eastern Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | 3.5 kHz (from Leg 1 and Leg 2) - 2280 km. Piston cores - 55; gravity cores - 12. | ||||||||
| Info derived | see summary | ||||||||
| Comments | Physical data holdings at PCMSC; Farnella was used. Project = MS Fan Ground Truth Program, MS Fan Ground Truth Program Information from Foghorn: Piston corer, 3.5 kHz surface towed sub-bottom profiler, LORAN-C and GPS navigation system, Velocimeter; | ||||||||
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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 TwichellWilliam C Schwab | ||||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | L. Bader - USGS PMG, J. Barber - USGS PMG, H. Lee - USGS PMG, H. Nelson - USGS PMG, J. Vaughan - USGS PMG, N. Kenyon - IOS, T. Crook - WHOI, C. Paull - UNC, W. Ussler - UNC |
| Data category: | Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sampling |
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| Data type: | Experiments (biological), Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Geology |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientists' cruise report including personnel, equipment, objective, cruise narrative, tabulated information, transponder net locations, area maps, sidescan sonar trackmap for first leg F-90-3 (FA 90001) and core locations from second leg F-90-4 (FA 90003). |
| Core log | Piston core and section log containing identifier, location, water depth, head weight, penetration, length, subsection. |
| Station log | Station and core information, length of time to bottom, coordinates, pull out strength. |
| Visual description of cores. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | 2 | |
| Loran-C | Navigation | 1 | |
| Piston corer | Geology | 4 | |
| GPS (wh) | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Other | Unknown, Multichannel, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Bubble Gun, Air Gun / Water Gun, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sonobuoy | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1990-003-FA-SE-001 | 3.5 kHz | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1990-003-FA-SE-002 | 3.5 kHz | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1990-003-FA-LN-001 | Loran-C | Floppy disk(s) containing NAV, NAV, NAV, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1990-003-FA-NL-001-02 | Piston corer | Piston core and section log containing identifier, location, water depth, head weight, penetration, length, subsection, etc. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1990-003-FA-NL-001-04 | Piston corer | Visual description of piston, gravity and trigger cores. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1990-003-FA-PH-001 | Piston corer | Photo prints of complete split cores: B/W; 1 photo for each of cores 21-67, plus negatives. | David C Twichell |
| 1990-003-FA-SC-001 | Piston corer | CORE samples | Brian Buczkowski |
