Field Activity 1971-008-FA

Identifier 1971-008-FA
Alternate names UGEO Leg 8; CORPUS 23, U-08-71-PR, U0871PR
Purpose Conduct a geophysical survey.
Location gulf transit, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Collected bathymetry (3.5 kHz) and gravity data.
Comments Holdings at PCMSC Project = International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE), International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE)
Related activities
1971-001-FA: Cruise legs
Platform
United Geo I
Length 125 feet.
Itinerary
Start Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 1971-12-15
End Corpus Christi, TX 1971-12-24
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -100
East -63
North 31
South 15

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Case, James
Crew members

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Gravity, Magnetics, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Minimal information.
Gravity log book Gravity meter (wh) Gravity log on coding sheets.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Loran-C Navigation 1
Geomechanique streamer Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity 1
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Magnetometer (wh) Magnetics 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1971-008-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1971-008-FA-BA-001 3.5 kHz Bathymetric data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
1971-008-FA-GP-001 Gravity meter (wh) Gravity data in InfoBank Nancy K. Soderberg
NGDC MGD77 data Magnetometer (wh) Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity