Summary Information for Field Activity 1989-034-FA

Area of Operations: Atlantic Continental Slope off New Jersey, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: December 05, 1989 to December 19, 1989

Chief scientist: Dave Twichell

William B. F. Ryan - Chief Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory LDEO

Objectives: Sediment investigations, sea floor mapping, and ALVIN submersible test dives.

Type of Activity: Submersible dives; Sampling; Photography; Sea floor mapping;Submersible dives
Sea floor mapping

Information to be derived: Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary: Still images: 9 reels 35-mm color film; Moving images: 23 8-mm video tapes; Samples: carbonates, sediments, chalk, mudstone, sandstone; Other Geophysical: temperature records, sound velocity records, navigation, Seabeam multibeam bathymetry.

Contact: PROJECT PARTNER ()

InfoBank: uses the identifier A-24-89-NJ. Visit this site for more information.

Platform Info:

ATLANTIS II

ALVIN

Publications resulting from these data

Pratson, Lincoln F., Ryan, William B.F., Mountain, Gregory S., and Twichell, David C.,1994, Submarine canyon initiation by downslope-eroding sediment flows; evidence in late Cenozoic strata on the New Jersey continental slope: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, no. 3: p. 395-412. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1994)106<0395:SCIBDE>2.3.CO;2)

Data Types and Locations:

Bathymetry

Logs

Short cruise summary for ATLANTIS II Cruise 124 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2168 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2169 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2170 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2171 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2172 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2173 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2174 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2175 provided on WHOI's public web pages

Summary of ALVIN Dive 2176 provided on WHOI's public webpages.

Photos

Samples

Video