Summary Information for Field Activity 1989-039-FA

Area of Operations: Lake Baikal, Baikal Rift Zone, south central Siberia, Russia, Asia

Dates: June 30, 1989 to July 31, 1989

Chief scientist: Deborah Hutchinson

Alexander Golmshtok, Chief Scientist - Inst. of Oceanology, Gelendzhik, Russia

Objectives: Study the dynamics of the lake and rift zone.

Type of Activity: Seismic profiling;

Information to be derived: Sediment thickness and tectonic evolution of the rift system

Summary: All data were collected by the Russian Institute of Oceanology and the Russian Limnological Institute. USGS personnel assisted with data processing only. CDP seismic reflection data: 1442.40 km, 17 tracklines. See USGS OFR 92-243, Processing of Lake Baikal Marine Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data, for additional information.

Contact: Deborah Hutchinson (dhutchinson@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier B-1-89-LB. Visit this site for more information.

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Platform Info:

BALKHASH

Publications resulting from these data

Hutchinson, D. R., Lee, M. W., Agena, W. F., Golmshtok, A. J., Moskalenko, V. N., Karapetov, K., Coleman, D. F., and Akentiev, L.,1992, Processing of Lake Baikal marine multichannel seismic reflection data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-243, 58 p.. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr92243)

Data Types and Locations:

Navigation

Zip archive of all shotpoint navigation.

Zip archive of all timebased navigation.

SHOTNAV (text files) 24 shotpoint navigation files.

TIMENAV (text files) 24 time-based navigation files.

Logs

Seismics

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