Field Activity 2015-617-FA

Identifier 2015-617-FA
Purpose 1) New multichannel streamer shakedown (including seismic-reflection profiles across the Santa Cruz shelf, San Gregorio Fault Zone, and Smooth Ridge) 2) Investigation of paleo-channel cut-and-fill deposits around the head of Monterey Canyon
Location Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean
Summary MCS_Data, Solstice_SEGY, YoNav folders on FAD.
Info derived High-resolution MCS profiles in the Monterey Bay region
Comments Exact survey dates are weather dependent. New MCS streamer will be used as the receiver.
Projects
Platform
Parke Snavely
34'
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Santa Cruz, CA 2015-02-23
End Santa Cruz, CA 2015-03-06
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -122.305
East -121.82436523
North 36.9441115
South 36.63534156

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Samuel Y JohnsonDaniel BrothersKatherine L Coble
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Daniel Brothers
Specialist, Information
Katherine L Coble
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Multichannel, Sparker

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
navigation 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)
Multichannel Multichannel 1
Mini sparker Sparker (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection data, Monterey Bay, offshore central California Multichannel This data release contains approximately 190 line-kilometers of processed, high-resolution multichannel seismic-reflection (MCS) profiles that were collected aboard the R/V Snavely in 2015 on U.S. Geological Survey cruise 2015-617-FA in Monterey Bay, offshore central California. The majority of MCS profiles collected are oriented north-south across the Monterey Canyon head to address marine geohazards and submarine canyon evolution. The MCS profiles were acquired using a 700-Joule minisparker source and a 24-channel digital streamer. Alicia F Balster-gee

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity