To observe and sample stratigraphic sections displaced along active fault scarps and to evaluate the use of a free deep diving vehicle in studies of offshore faulting.
Description
Chief Scientists: Sam Clarke, Mike Kennedy, Gary Greene, Peter Lonsdale. Geological Sampling data (gravitycore, radar, transitsatellite, RhoRho, submersible) of field activity L-1-79-SC in Southern California Continental Margin from 07/27/1979 to 07/30/1979
Location
Southern California Continental Margin
Summary
physical data holdings
Five DSRV Alvin dives were made on fault and fault-line scarps associated with the Rose Canyon-Newport-Inglewood, Coronado Bank-Palos Verdes Hills, and San Clemente Fault zones, to investigate the character and recency of faulting of a tectonically active portion of the Southern California Continental Margin. A total of 36 outcrop and 14 sediemnt core samples were collected during the five dives. An effort was made to collect these samples in orderly stratigraphic succession.
Comments
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Sam Clarke (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Mike Kennedy (CDMG) - Chief Scientist
Gary Greene (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Peter Lonsdale (Scripps) - Chief Scientist
Carol Hirozawa - USGS Western Region
