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Field Activity Details for field activity 1981-024-FA

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Other ID: 110

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): James M. Robb

Affiliate Investigator(s): Barbara Hecker - Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (LDGO)

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To obtain biological and geological specimens, conduct echo-sounding surveys, and record biological and geological narrative and photographic observations of the Continental Slope between Baltimore Canyon and Hendrickson Canyon.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1981-07-07

End Date: 1981-07-21

Equipment Used: 12 kHz, Grab sampler

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis; Echo-sounding survey data;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: ALVIN dives: 13 (#1107-1119; #1114 aborted; USGS dives = #1112, 1115, and 1117); 12 kHz echo-sounding records: 13 km; Sediment samples: 46; Hand-held 35 mm color slides: 651; Bow camera photos: 100 feet each B/W and Color; Audio narrative observations.

Staff: James M. Robb, John C., Jr. Hampson

Affiliate Staff:
Richard Backus - Ch. Sci.
WHOI; Barbara Hecker - Ch. Sci.
LDGO; Ashton; Gison; Logan

Notes:

Location:

Baltimore Canyon, Berkeley Canyon, Carteret Canyon, Hendrickson Canyon, U.S. Atlantic Continental Slope, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 39.11443437 South: 37.97643939 West: -73.86410641 East: -72.38770745

Platform(s):

photo of Lulu
Lulu
photo of Alvin
Alvin

Publications

Robb, J.M., Kirby, John R., Hampson, John C., Jr., Gibson, Patricia R., and Hecker, Barbara, 1983, Furrowed outcrops of Eocene chalk on the lower continental slope offshore New Jersey: Geology, v. 11 no. 3, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1983)11<182:FOOECO>2.0.CO;2.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's report including operations, personnel, and data acquired. Includes a cruise summary of submersible dives.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
12 kHz --- Single Beam
1981-024-FA-SE-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines )
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology
1981-024-FA-SC-001 (SUBMERSIBLE SAMPLE samples)

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