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Field Activity Details for field activity 1989-022-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Deborah Hutchinson

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect high-resolution seismic refraction and seismic reflection data across the Grenville Front at its coastal exposure using airgun sources and land seismometers.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Little Current, Ontario, Canada

End Port/Location: Killarney, Ontario, Canada

Start Date: 1989-08-07

End Date: 1989-08-17

Equipment Used: GPS (wh), Other, Air gun, Loran-C, Echosounder

Information to be Derived: Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Deborah Hutchinson, Barry Irwin, David Mason, David Nichols

Affiliate Staff:
Margaret Burke (Dalhousie Univ.); GSC: Isa Asudeh
A. Marincak
R. Irving
T. Cartwright
M. Argyle

Notes: The results will complement physical property measurements of rocks from within the Grenville Front tectonic zone and deep seismic reflection results. Information derived from pre-cruise report and geophysics log.

Location:

Northern Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada, North America;

Boundaries
North: 46.5 South: 44.5 West: -82 East: -79.5

Platform(s):

photo of Neecho
Neecho

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Geophysics log (document not focused on specific equipment) Geophysics log describing GI gun configuration, performance and fathometer data acquisition, ship movement, start and end of lines, comments.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS (wh) --- Navigation
Other --- --- ---
Air gun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Loran-C --- Navigation
1989-022-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 89022)
1989-022-FA-LN-002-01 (Navigation data recovered from floppy disk)
1989-022-FA-LN-003 (Digital tape(s) of NV, )
Echosounder --- Single Beam
1989-022-FA-SE-001 (analog tape of seismic data)

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