1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 1992-041-FA

Identifier 1992-041-FA
Alternate names KIT JONES 92-1, 92-2 and 92-3 (Legs 1, 2 and 3)
Purpose To explore for hard mineral resources using high-resolution seismic data and to test new seismic technologies (Elics Delph 1 digital acquisition system).
Location offshore Apalachicola Bay (Legs 1 and 2), offshore Pensacola Bay (Leg 3), Florida, Gulf Shores, Alabama, Cape St. George Shoals, Little St. George Island, Government Cut, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Seismic tracklines: 73; Seismic rolls: 25; Fathometer rolls: 20; Cores: 3.
Comments Leg 1: July 8-12, 1992; Leg 2: July 13-17, 1992; Leg 3: July 17-20, 1992. From Foghorn: Delph 1 Seismic Acq. System; Bubble Pulser sound source; power supply; analog receiver; tow cable; ITI hydrophone; Geologger plotter; Magellan GPS; Odom Digitrace; Dapnav II software; Trimble GPS receiver; LORAN-C; Raytheon PTR seismic transceiver; GeoPulse receiver; 3.5 kHz sled; Hunter sled (seaotter); EPC 3200 recorder; Raytheon DE719c Fathometer; Benthos hydrophone. ?Is Hunter sled a Huntec? leaving boomer as is.
Platform
Kit Jones
Length 60 feet; beam 15.7 feet.
Itinerary
Start Panama City Marina, Panama City, FL 1992-07-08
End Pensacola, FL 1992-07-20
Days in the field 13
Bounds
West -87.684
East -84.621
North 30.352
South 29.248

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Dana S Wiese
Crew members
Affiliate principal Randy McBride, Louisiana Geological Survey
Affiliate staff Randy McBride, Ch. Sci. - Louisiana Geological Survey (LGS); Doug Lockhart, Eng. - Marine Minerals Technology Center (MMTC); Dana Wiese, Elect. Tech. - USGS; Monty Simmons, Captain (Legs 1 and 2) - MMTC; Harold (Lang) Norris, Contracted Mate (Legs 1 and 3) - MMTC; Bob Shelton, Captain (Leg 3), Mar. Tech. Sup. (Legs 2 and 3) - MMTC.

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sonar, Location-Elevation
Data type: Boomer, Bubble Gun, Single Beam, Sub Bottom Profiler, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Bubble pulse Bubble Gun (no data reported)
Innerspace Technology 25-element hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker (no data reported)
Odom Digitrace 200kHz Single Beam (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Raytheon DE-719 precision echo sounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker (no data reported)
Magellan PRO 1000 GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Trimble 4000AX GPS receiver Navigation (no data reported)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity