Summary Information for Field Activity 1975-001-FA

Area of Operations: Blake Plateau, Southeast Georgia Embayment, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: January 07, 1975 to April 26, 1975

Chief scientist: Bill Dillon

Jean-Pierre Fail, Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP)

Objectives: This cruise was carried out as part of a cooperative study by the USGS and the Institute Francais du Petrole (IFP) to collect DEP seismic profiles, gravity, magnetics, and refraction profiling data on the Blake Plateau, Southeast Georgia Embayment.

Type of Activity: 24-channel CDP seismic profiling;24-channel CDP seismic profiling

Information to be derived:

Summary: CDP multichannel seismic data: 10 lines (FC-1 thru FC-10).

Contact: Nancy Soderberg (nsoderberg@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier F-AB-75-SE. Visit this site for more information.

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Platform Info:

FLORENCE

Publications resulting from these data

Hutchinson, D. R., Poag, C. W., and Popenoe, P.,1995, Geophysical database of the East Coast of the United States; southern Atlantic margin - stratigraphy and velocity from multichannel seismic profiles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-27, 176 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr9527)

Hutchinson, D. R., Poag, C. W., Johnson, A., Popenoe, P., and Wright, C.,1996, Geophysical database of the East Coast of the United States; southern Atlantic margin - stratigraphy and velocity in map grids: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-55, 165 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr9655)

Dillon, W.P., Paull, C.K., Buffler, R.T., and Fail, J.-P.,1979, Structure and development of the Southeast Georgia Embayment and northern Blake Plateau; preliminary analysis; in Watkins, J.S., Montadert, L., and Dickerson, P.W., eds., Geological and geophysical investigations of continental margins: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Memoir 29, p. 27-41