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Field Activity Details for field activity 1980-010-FA

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Other ID: 80-6A; AST-6A-80

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Robert N. Oldale

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Uniboom survey.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1980-06-03

End Date: 1980-06-06

Equipment Used: Boomer, Loran-C, Single channel hydrophone

Information to be Derived: Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Uniboom: 11 lines (161 km).

Staff: Robert N. Oldale

Affiliate Staff:
A. Whitney

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Bob Oldale - Ch. Sci.; A. Whitney.
Project = MA Co-op, MA Co-op

Location:

Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.87836819 South: 42.69393183 West: -70.80299156 East: -70.38522217

Platform(s):

photo of Asterias
Asterias

Publications

Oldale, R.N., and Edwards, G.B., 1991, Cores from marine geologic features in the western Gulf of Maine: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2147, 2 sheets, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/mf2147.

Oldale, R.N., and Wommack, L.E., 1987, Maps and seismic profiles showing geology of the inner continental shelf, Cape Ann, Massachusetts to New Hampshire: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1892, 2 sheets, scale 1:125,000, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/mf1892.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 1980-010-FA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=1980-010-FA.

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Uniboom log Boomer Uniboom log containing time, Loran-C time-delay fixes, data acquisition and equipment configuration notes

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Boomer --- Boomer
Loran-C --- Navigation
1980-010-FA-LN-001-01 (Drafted track map depicting Uniboom seismic track lines for FA 80010 (ASTERIAS 80-6A) and seismic lines including Uniboom for FA 79012 (GILLIS 7903-2).)
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
SEGY data
1980-010-FA-SE-002 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( UNI) for lines )
1980-010-FA-SE-001-03 (Scanned cropped record sections: 26 scanned cropped seismic record sections in TIFF format.)
1980-010-FA-SE-001 (Seismic bottom profiles: 161 km of Uniboom data collected along 11 track lines.)
1980-010-FA-SE-003 (microfilm of )
1980-010-FA-SE-001-01 (19 SEG-Y merged files.)
1980-010-FA-SE-001-02 (Scanned raw record sections: 21 scanned raw seismic record sections in TIFF format.)

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