Field Activity G7079CP

Identifier G7079CP
Also known as DSDP70GC, G-70-79-CP
Location Galapagos Spreading Center, Central Pacific
Summary physical holdings Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 70: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/70/leg70.htm Publications; Hein, James R., and Yeh, Hsueh-Wen, 1983, Oxygen-isotope composition of secondary silica phases, Costa Rica Rift, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 69, in Stout, Larry N., and Bailey, Marian G., eds., Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project covering Leg 68 (Site 501), Leg 69, and Leg 70 (Site 504) of the cruises of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger, Puntarenas, Costa Rica to Balboa, Panama, July-December 1979: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 69, p. 423-429.
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 --- G7079CP Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP70GC NGDC ID --- 15050069 Funding --- (unspecified) Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG 70 Study region --- +8.00000,-33.00000, -87.00000, -72.00000 Chief Scientist(s) --- HONNEREZ J.,VON HERZEN R.P.,ETC. Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship) Date field data collection started --- 11/11/79 BALBOA,CANAL ZONE Date field data collection ended --- 12/27/79 VALPARAISO,CHILE 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 --- 10/07/81 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 Balboa, Panama 1979-11-11
End Callao, Peru 1979-12-27
Bounds
West -89.49442299
East -66.09556456
North 12.96601732
South -28.30438068

Personnel

Affiliate principal J. Honnerez, R. Von Herzen

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