Summary Information for Field Activity 1972-003-FA

Area of Operations: Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: July 21, 1972 to August 02, 1972

Chief scientist: Bob Oldale

Objectives: Cruise was first part of the search for drilling sites along the north flank of Georges Bank.

Type of Activity: Seismic profiling; magetics survey;magetics survey

Information to be derived:

Summary:

Contact: Bob Oldale (boldale@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier H-1-72-GK. Visit this site for more information.

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Platform Info:

HUNT

Publications resulting from these data

Oldale, R.N., Hathaway, J.C., Dillon, W.P., Hendricks, J.D., and Robb, J.M.,1974, Geophysical observations on northern part of Georges Bank and adjacent basins of Gulf of Maine: The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 58, no. 12: p. 2411-2427

Schlee, J., Mattick, R. E., Taylor, D. J., Girard, O. W., Grow, J., Rhodehamel, E. C., Perry, W. J., Jr., Bayer, K. C., Furbush, M., Clifford, C. P., and Lees, J. A.,1975, Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-353, 179 p.. (Available as a PDF version)

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Data Types and Locations:

Geophysics

Navigation

Logs

Chief Scientist's summary describing personnel, data type, dates of field work, and track map.

Field log containing Loran-C navigation positions, sonobouy, gravity meter, magnetometer, CSP airgun, and 3.5 kHz Uniboom data acquisition notes.

Seismics

Sonar