Summary Information for Field Activity 1965-001-FA

Area of Operations: Blake Plateau, Florida-Hatteras Slope, Southeast Georgia Embayment, U.S. Atlantic continental shelf and margin, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: April 17, 1965 to May 17, 1965

Chief scientist: John Schlee

Robert Gerard - Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory

Objectives: In May 1964, Institute of Marine Sciences-U. Miami, Scripps-U.CA, WHOI, and Lamont-Columbia U. joined in the establishment of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) Program. The long range purpose of this organization is to obtain continuous core samples of the entire sedimentary column from the floors of the oceans. The initial efforts were limited to water depths less than 6,000 feet, and tentative drilling locations were selected off the eastern, western, and gulf coasts of the United States. In late December 1964 the M/V CALDRILL I, a drilling vessel capable of working in depths of 6,000 feet, was engaged to drill on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland during summer 1965 for the Pan American Petroleum Corp. Pan American agreed to pay for moving costs if JOIDES could organize a drilling program along the track between California and the Grand Banks. JOIDES assumed responsibility for the vessel during drilling periods. Sites along track near good logistic ports were examined that would yield valuable information on the continental margin. Based on previous geological and geophysical investigations by the participating laboratories and a large body of knowledge of the continental-oceanic border, the Blake Plateau off Jacksonville, Florida was selected. Six sites were chosen along a transect southeastward from Jacksonville out 250 miles to 1,000 m water depth.

Type of Activity: JOIDES drilling;JOIDES drilling

Information to be derived: Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary: 6 core-holes logged: #1 - #6.

Contact: John Schlee (jschlee@usgs.gov)

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Platform Info:

CALDRILL I

Publications resulting from these data

Popenoe, Peter, and Spalding, J.S.,1988, Isopach and structure contour maps of the Miocene and post-Miocene sediments in the southeast Georgia Embayment, Florida-Hatteras Shelf, offshore Georgia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-397, 12 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/djvu/OFR/1988/ofr_88_397.djvu)

Popenoe, P., and Manheim, F.T.,2001, Origin and history of the Charleston Bump--geological formations, currents, bottom conditions, and their relationship to Wreckfish habitats on the Blake Plateau, in Sedberry, G.R., ed., Island in the Stream--Oceanography and Fisheries of the Charleston Bump: American Fisheries Society Symposium, v. 25: p. 43-94

Schlee, John,1977, Stratigraphy and Tertiary development of the continental margin east of Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 581-F, 32 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp581F)

Abbott, William H.,1980, Diatoms and stratigraphically significant silicoflagellates from the Atlantic Margin Coring Project and other Atlantic Margin sites: Micropaleontology, v. 26, no. 1: p. 49-80. (Also available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1485273)

Bray, E. E., and Evans, E. D.,1969, Organic extracts from JOIDES cores off northeastern Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 581-C, 12 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp581C)

Charm, W. B., Nesteroff, W. D., and Valdes, Sylvia,1969, Detailed stratigraphic description of the JOIDES cores on the continental margin off Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 581-D, 18 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp581D)

Emery, K. O., and Zarudzki, E. F. K.,1967, Seismic reflection profiles along the drill holes on the continental margin off Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 581-A, 15 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp581A)

Hathaway, John C., McFarlin, Peter F., and Ross, David A.,1970, Mineralogy and origin of sediments from drill holes on the continental margin off Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 581-E, 31 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp581E)

Hulsemann, Jobst,1968, Calcium carbonate, organic carbon, and nitrogen in sediments from drill holes on the continental margin off Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 581-B, 15 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp581B)

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