Field Activity G6679MX

Identifier G6679MX
Also known as DSDP66GC, G-66-79-MX
Location Central Mexico
Summary data holdings Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 66: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/66/leg66.htm
Comments FAN created from InfoBank on 11/15/2018 by CR. DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data) MCG Data Collection ID --- G6679MX Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP66GC NGDC ID --- 15050065 Funding --- (unspecified) Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG 66 Study region --- +23.00000,+15.00000,-107.00000, -98.00000 Chief Scientist(s) --- MOORE C.,WATKINS J.S. Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship) Date field data collection started --- 03/18/79 MAZATLAN,MEXICO Date field data collection ended --- 05/02/79 MANZANILLO,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
Itinerary
Start Mazatlan, Mexico 1979-03-18
End Manzanillo, Mexico 1979-05-03
Bounds
West -107.57860888
East -100.10648435
North 22.67484735
South 14.77488251

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Christopher S Moore
Crew members
Affiliate principal Joel Watkins

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