| Identifier | 2002-018-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Giant piston coring for gas hydrate project. | ||||||||
| Location | Tunica Mound, Pigmy Basin, Orca Basin, Bush Hill, Mississippi Canyon, north central Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Giant box cores: 4, ~32 m; gravity heat flow: 21 penetrations, 9 sta, ~57 m; Calypso piston cores: 17, ~500 m; pore water samples: 458; water content/geotechnical samples: ~1100. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | D102GM Cores archived at University of Southern Florida: 2550, 2551; cores archived in European French repository (LSCE): 2533, 2534, 2548, 2549, 2552, 2558, 2574, 2575, and 2576; cores archived at Texas A&M: all remaining. Information from Foghorn: Giant piston coring system associated with ship; Chirp seismic/multibeam VHR single-channel; Chirp seismic/multibeam bathymetry; Calypso piston sea floor core; Gravity sea floor core; Box sea floor core | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | William P Dillon | ||||
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| Affiliate principal | Charles Paull, MBARI; Richard Coffin, NRL | ||||
| Affiliate staff | Thomas Lorenson, Co-Chief Scientist (USGS-Menlo); Jennifer Dougherty (USGS-Menlo); James Flocks (USGS-St. Pete); Pat Hart (USGS-Menlo); John Pohlman (College of William and Mary); Steve Hallam, Randy Keaten, Patrick Mitts, Charlie Paull, Bill Ussler (MBARI); Olya Boldini (Moscow State U.); Efthymios Tripsanas (Texas A&M); Ivana Novosel (U. Victoria, British Columbia); Yifeng Chen (U. Tokyo) |
| Data category: | Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Experiments (biological), Navigation, Biology, Geology, Air Gun / Water Gun |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Co-Chief Scientist's cruise summary of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, personnel activities, track map. Folder of information. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Seismic reflection | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker | (no data reported) | |
| Gravity corer | Geology | (no data reported) | |
| GPS (wh) | Navigation | 1 | |
| Box corer | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| Piston corer | Geology | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2002-018-FA-LN-001 | GPS (wh) | Cruise Navigation (text file) | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 2002-018-FA-SC-001 | Piston corer | CORE samples | Brian Buczkowski |
