Other ID: GLIMPCE
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): John C. Behrendt, Deborah Hutchinson
Affiliate Investigator(s): Alan Green - CSC, U W, SIU, NIU, UWO, Usask
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Multichannel, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multichannel seismic data over the Great Lakes were acquired by Geophoto Services, Ltd., a Canadian subsidiary of Geophysical Service, Inc., for the U.S. Geological Survey and Geological Survey of Canada as part of the Great Lakes International Multidisciplinary Program of Crustal Evolution (GLIMPCE) to better understand the deep structure and tectonics of the midcontinent rift system and the Grenville tectonic province.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
End Port/Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Start Date: 1986-08-31
End Date: 1986-09-24
Equipment Used: Multichannel seismics, Transit GPS, Sonar Doppler, Loran-C, 12 kHz
Information to be Derived: Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 9 CDP multichannel lines: 1370 km (Lake Superior - A, B, B-F link, C, F, and G; Lake Michigan - H; and Lake Huron - I and J).
Staff: John C. Behrendt, Deborah Hutchinson
Affiliate Staff:
Patrick Morel-a-l'Huissier - Geological Survey of Canada; C.P. Spencer - Geological Survey of Canada; Robert P. Meyer - U. Wisconsin-Madison; John Karl - U. Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Patrick Ervin - U. Northern Illinois; John L. Sexton - U. Southern Illinois; Robert F. Mereu - U. Western Ontario; L.D. McGinnis - U.S. DOE; Zoltan Hajnal - U. Saskatchewan
Notes: Original Submitted By field contained: John Behrendt, Debbie Hutchinson.
Project = GLIMPCE, GLIMPCE
Location:
Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Great Lakes, United States, Canada, North America;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 48.9 | South: 43.9 | West: -90 | East: -80 |
Platform(s):
Fred J. Agnich |
Agena, W.F., Lee, M.W., Hutchinson, D.R., Behrendt, J.C., Cannon, W.F., and Green, A.G., 1988, 1986 GLIMPCE seismic reflection survey stacked data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-386, 13 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88386.
Behrendt, J.C., and Green, A.G., 1988, GLIMPCE 1986 multichannel seismic-reflection profiles in the Great Lakes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-401, 3 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88401.
Behrendt, J.C., Hutchinson, D.R., Lee, M., Thornber, C.R., Trehu, A., Cannon, W., Green, A., 1990, GLIMPCE seismic reflection evidence of deep-crustal and upper-mantle intrusions and magmatic underplating associated with the Midcontinent Rift system of North America: Tectonophysics, v. 173 no. 1-4, pp. 595–615, doi: 10.1016/0040-1951(90)90248-7.
Hutchinson, D.R., Lee, M. W., Behrendt, J. C., Cannon, W. F., and Green, A. G., 1989, True-amplitude processing of GLIMPCE seismic reflection data; interpretation [abs.]: , Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. Baltimore, Md., 7-12 May 1989.
Hutchinson, D.R., Lee, M. W., Behrendt, J. C., Cannon, W. F., Trehu, A. M., Green, A. G., and Milkereit, B., 1989, Structure and evolution of North American Midcontinent Rift System from GLIMPCE deep seismic data [abs.]: , 28th International Geological Congress, Abstracts. Washington, D.C., 9-19 July 1989, , 2.88 p.
Hutchinson, D.R., Lee, M. W., Behrendt, John, Cannon, W. F., and Green, A. G., 1992, Variations in the reflectivity of the Moho transition zone beneath the Midcontinent Rift System of North America; results from true amplitude analysis of GLIMPCE data: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97 no. B4, URL: http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/1992/91JB02572.shtml.
Hutchinson, D.R., Morel-a-l'Huissier, P., Meyer, H., Asudeh, I., Ervin, P., Hajnal, Z., Karl, J., Mereu, R., Meyer, R., Sexton, J., Spencer, C., and Trehu, A., 1988, A description of GLIMPCE, 1986, large offset seismic experiment from the Great Lakes: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-431, 91 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88431.
Lee, M.W., and Hutchinson, D. R., 1992, Limitations of quantitative analysis of deep crustal seismic reflection data; examples from GLIMPCE: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97 no. B4, URL: http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/1992/92JB00129.shtml.
Lee, M.W., Agena, W.F., and Hutchinson, D.R., 1988, Processing of the GLIMPCE multichannel seismic data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-225, 46 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88225.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Multichannel seismics | --- | Multichannel | 1986-013-FA-SE-001-05 (STACK SEGY data) 1986-013-FA-SE-001-04 (DEMUX SEGY data) 1986-013-FA-SE-001-03 (Scanned seismic record sections) 1986-013-FA-SE-001-02 (CD ROM disk ofseismic data) 1986-013-FA-SE-001-01 (Paper record section of Lines A, B, C, F, G, H, I, J, ) |
Transit GPS | --- | Navigation | |
Sonar Doppler | --- | Navigation | |
Loran-C | --- | Navigation | 1986-013-FA-LN-001-02 (Raw navigation data recovered from 9 track tape) 1986-013-FA-LN-001-03 (Shotpoint map showing seismic lines.) 1986-013-FA-LN-001-01 (Modified UKOOA shotpoint navigation file with 2-minute fixes in degrees, minutes, decimal seconds, and northings/eastings.) |
12 kHz | --- | Single Beam |