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

Field Activity 2016-642-FA

Identifier 2016-642-FA -- CANCELED
Purpose To perform field work in the Shetland Islands of the United Kingdom. Tsunami deposits from the Storegga landslide will be examined and sampled in order to validate future tsunami modeling efforts.
Location Shetland Islands, UK
Info derived Tsunami deposit spatial variability in thickness, grain size.
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Lerwick, UK 2016-06-24
End Lerwick, UK 2016-07-03
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West 0.1
East -2
North 60.9
South 59.7

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Guy R Gelfenbaum
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
SeanPaul M La Selle
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Photo, Transects, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
camera Photo (no data reported)
Handheld GPS Nomad Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Gouge Cores Geology (no data reported)
hand auger Geology (no data reported)
Hand-grab sample Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Peat Auger Geology (no data reported)
push cores Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity