Field Activity 2011-003-FA

Identifier 2011-003-FA
Purpose high-resolution MCS survey of the continental slope NE of the Hudson canyon. This area is unique along the Atlantic slope in having many landslides and hardly any submarine canyons. The cruise aimed to characterize and tie shelf, slope and rise stratigraphy together. It was also a test cruise for the new MCS streamer purchased by the center
Location Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic;,
Summary 1000 km of continuous seismic reflection data collected by Geometrics digital streamer (GeoEel) with a 6 kjoule Applied Acoustics sparker sound source
Comments Project = NRC/Tsunami Landslide,
Platform
Tiki XIV
80 feet
Itinerary
Start WH 2011-09-20
End WH 2011-09-26
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -72.5098
East -70.35645
North 40.68064
South 38.82259

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
Eric Moore
Scientist, Staff
Uri Ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
Claudia Flores
Scientist, Staff
Emile Bergeron
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Claudia Flores
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sparker, Multichannel, Sonobuoy, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
Seismic refraction Sonobuoy (no data reported)
Sensor - MVP30 (Odim) Sound Velocity (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity