Field Activity G7580AT

Identifier G7580AT
Alternate names G-75-80-AT
Also known as DSDP75GC
Location Atlantic Ocean
Comments created from InfoBank. Publication: Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 75: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/75/leg75.htm NGDC overview: ! Converted to time format with year at start. ! DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data) MCG Data Collection ID --- G7580AT Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP75GC NGDC ID --- 15050074 Funding --- (unspecified) Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG75 Study region --- +35.00000,-22.00000, -74.00000, +13.00000 Chief Scientist(s) --- HAY W.,SIBVET J. Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship) Date field data collection started --- 07/27/80 WALVIS BAY,AFRICA Date field data collection ended --- 09/21/80 NORFOLK,VIRGINIA 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
Itinerary
Start Walvis Bay, south Africa 1980-07-27
End Recife, Brazil 1980-09-21
Bounds
West 16.80531383
East -81.35874867
North 35.06841435
South -24.28774266

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Affiliate principal W. Hay and J. Sibvet

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar, Seismics
Data type: Magnetics, Navigation, Geology, Single Beam, Sub Bottom Profiler

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
magnetometer Magnetics 1
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
drillcore Geology 1
3.5khz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
magnetics magnetometer data on FAD Carol A Reiss
samples drillcore data in Warehouse Carol A Reiss

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity