Other ID: E-2E-78
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Mark Ayers
Affiliate Investigator(s): Fred Keer - USGS
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain at least 30 piston cores from 21 pre-selected target areas and determine character of bottom sediment in the study area. Subsamples were collected for hydrocarbon content, bacteria taxonomy, geotechnical properties, pore water geochemistry, and age determination.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Brunswick, GA
End Port/Location: Beaufort, NC
Start Date: 1978-04-02
End Date: 1978-04-13
Equipment Used: Dredge, Gravity corer, Air gun, Loran-C, Magnavox satellite positioning system, Piston corer
Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Piston cores: 51, archived at Duke; Box dredges: 26; Rock dredges: 12; Airgun.
Staff: Mark Ayers
Affiliate Staff:
Fred Keer - co-Ch. Sci.
Dennis Ligon
Doug Peeler
David Schultz - USGS-Reston; Roger Battey - Duke U.
Monica Kiper - Brown U.
Mary Gates - Duke U.
Carol Haney - Duke U.
Susan Hutchison - Duke U.
Amy Jackson - Duke U.
Tosey Beddingfield - UNC-Wilmington
Mark Venters - UNC
Jim Weaver - UNC
Jeff Woody - UNC
Notes: Subsamples taken by David Schultz, USGS-Reston, for light hydrocarbon and organic anaylsis. Subsamples taken for Frank Senftle, Fred Sisler and Jody Zelibor, USGS-Reston, for bacterial and early diagenetic microbial degradation. Subsamples taken for Frank Manheim, USGS-Woods Hole, for geochemistry of interstitial pore water.
Project = Geologic Studies of the Florida-Hatteras Slope and Innermost Blake Plateau, Geologic Studies of the Florida-Hatteras Slope and Innermost Blake Plateau
Information from Foghorn: Rock dredge;Box dredge, Piston corer;Gravity corer;Seismic profiler with 5 cu. in. airgun;
Location:
Florida-Hatteras continental slope, inner Blake Plateau, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 35 | South: 29.5 | West: -81.25 | East: -76 |
Platform(s):
 Eastward |
Ayers, M.W., Pilkey, Orrin H., 1981, Piston core and surficial sediment investigations of the Florida-Hatteras slope and inner Blake Plateau, chapter 5 in Popenoe, P.,ed., Environmental geologic studies on the southeastern United States Atlantic outer continental shelf, 1977-1978: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (81-582-A), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81582A.
Ayers, M.W., Pilkey, O.H., 1981, Piston core and surficial sediment investigations of the Florida-Hatteras slope and inner Blake Plateau; appendix 5 in Popenoe, P. ed., Appendices of environmental geologic studies on the southeastern United States Atlantic outer continental shelf, 1977-1978: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (81-582-B), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81582B.
Bothner, M.H., Johnson, P.P., 1981, 210 Pb in sediment cores from the Atlantic continental shelf: estimates of rates of sediment mixing, chapter 3 in Popenoe, P.,ed., Environmental geologic studies on the southeastern United States Atlantic outer continental shelf, 1977-1978: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (81-582-A), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81582A.
Popenoe, P., 1981, A summary of environmental geologic studies on the southeastern United States Atlantic outer continental shelf, 1977-1978: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (81-583), 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81583.
Popenoe, P., ed., 1981, Appendices of environmental geologic studies on the southeastern United States Atlantic outer continental shelf, 1977-1978: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-582-B, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81582B.
Popenoe, P., ed., 1981, Environmental geologic studies on the southeastern United States Atlantic outer continental shelf, 1977-1978: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-582-A, 15 maps, scale 1:250,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr81582A.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dredge | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Gravity corer | --- | Geology | |
| Air gun | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun | |
| Loran-C | --- | Navigation | |
| Magnavox satellite positioning system | --- | Navigation | |
| Piston corer | --- | Geology |
