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Field Activity Details for field activity 1969-008-FA

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Other ID: 939009 Leg 3; CORPUS 8

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): David Scholl

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1969-09-20

End Date: 1969-11-15

Equipment Used: Echosounder, Loran-A, 3.5 kHz

Information to be Derived: Bathymetric maps; Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: 160 K Seismic. No cruise report. Dates unresolved; listed variously as Aug. 1969 - Sept. 20, 1969, or Sept. 23, 1969 - Nov. 15, 1969.

Location:

Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 30 South: 18.31281 West: -98 East: -80.15625

Platform(s):

photo of Elisha Kane
Elisha Kane

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Echosounder --- Single Beam
1969-008-FA-BA-001 (Bathymetric data in Infobank)
Loran-A --- Navigation
1969-008-FA-LN-001 (Navigation data in InfoBank)
3.5 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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