Field Activity G6378NP

Identifier G6378NP
Also known as DSDP63GC, G-63-78-NP
Location Northern Pacific
Summary physical holdings Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 63: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/63/leg63.htm Publications: Vedder, J.G., Crouch, J.K., and Lee-Wong, Florence, 1981, Comparative study of rocks from Deep Sea Drilling Project holes 467, 468, and 469 and the southern California borderland, in Orlofsky, Susan, ed., Leg 63 of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Long Beach, California to Mazatlan, Mexico, October-November 1978: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 63, p. 907-918.
Comments FAN created on 11/15/2018 from InfoBank by CR. DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data) MCG Data Collection ID --- G6378NP Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP63GC NGDC ID --- 15050062 Funding --- (unspecified) Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG 63 Study region --- +34.00000,+20.00000,-121.00000,-106.00000 Chief Scientist(s) --- HAQ B.,YEATS R. Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship) Date field data collection started --- 10/09/78 SAN PEDRO,CALIFORNIA Date field data collection ended --- 11/27/78 MAZATLAN,MEXICO Parameters surveyed --- Bathymetry: surveyed, contained in data file Magnetics: surveyed, contained in data file Gravity: not surveyed High-resolution seismics: surveyed, but not contained in data file Deep penetration seismics: surveyed, but not contained in data file Format --- (I1,A8,F5.2,4I2,F5.3,F8.5,F9.5,I1,F6.4,F6.1,I2,i1,3F6.1,I1,F5.1,F6.0,F7.1,F6.1,F5.1,A8,4I1) Date of data input to NGDC --- 07/03/80 Contributing institution --- SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY Country --- USA Navigation instrumentation --- SATNAV,MANUAL ENTRY GYRO AND SPD CHANGES Position determination method --- LINEAR INTERP.BETWEEN ADJACENT FIXES Bathymetry instrumentation --- 3.5-12KHZ/EDO 550A RECORDERS/WIDE BEAM Additional forms of bathymetric data --- ANAL.RECORDS,CARDS,35MMFILM General rate of bathymetry in file --- 5.0 minutes General collection rate of bathymetry --- 1SECONDSWEEP Assumed sound velocity --- 1500.0 m/sec Bathymetric datum code --- No correction applied (sea level) Bathmetry interpolation scheme --- 5 MINUTE INTERVAL Magnetics instrumentation --- GEOMETRICS MAGNETOMETER MOD G-801/3 Additional forms of magnetics data --- ANAL.RECORDS,CARDS,35MMFILM General rate of magnetics in file --- 5.0 minutes General collection rate of magnetics --- 6 seconds Magnetic sensor tow distance --- (unspecified) Magnetic sensor depth --- (unspecified) Two sensor horizontal separation --- (unspecified) Residual magnetics reference field --- IGRF-75 Method of applying residual field --- LIN. INTERP.POINTS WITHIN ONE DEGREE SQUARE Seismic instrumentation --- 20TO300CU.IN.AIRGUN,10-300HZ,EDO 550 REC Formats of seismic data --- ANAL.RECORDS,35MM MICROFILM
Platform
Glomar Challenger
400 feet
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Long Beach, California 1978-10-09
End Mazatlan, Mexico 1978-11-27
Bounds
West -120.25529494
East -105.64066019
North 35.25997012
South 18.64624514

Personnel

Affiliate principal B. Haq, R. Yeats

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Magnetics, Navigation, Geology, Air Gun / Water Gun, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
transitsatellite Navigation (no data reported)
core Biology, Geology (no data reported)
airgun Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
airgunmonitor Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
12khz Single Beam (no data reported)
bathymetry Single Beam (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity