Field Activity G9082WP

Identifier G9082WP
Alternate names G-90-82-WP
Also known as DSDP90GC
Location Western Pacific
Comments created from InfoBank. Publication: Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 90: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/dsdp/data/90/leg90.htm ! Converted to time format with year at start. ! DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data) MCG Data Collection ID --- G9082WP Institution Data Collection ID --- DSDP90GC NGDC ID --- 15050090 Funding --- (unspecified) Project, Cruise & Leg --- DEEPSEA DRILL.LG90 Study region --- -21.00000,-46.00000,+161.00000,+176.00000 Chief Scientist(s) --- KENNETT J.P.,VON DER BORCH C. Name of vessel --- D/V GLOMAR CHALLENGER (surface ship) Date field data collection started --- 12/02/82 NOUMEA,NEW CALEDONIA Date field data collection ended --- 01/08/83 WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND 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 --- 04/27/83 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 --- 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 Noumea, New Caledonia 1982-12-02
End Wellington, New Zealand 1983-01-08
Bounds
West 149.61781583
East 178.17250333
North -1.53491433
South -48.41519278

Personnel

Affiliate principal J.P. Kennett, and C. Von Der Borch

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Magnetics, Navigation, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
magnetometer Magnetics 1
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
drillcore Geology 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
magnetics magnetometer data in FAD Carol A Reiss
samples drillcore data in PCMSC warehouse Carol A Reiss

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity