Summary Information for Field Activity 1990-001-FA

Twichell, David C., Cross, VeeAnn A., Paskevich, Valerie F., Hutchinson, Deborah R., Winters, William J., and Hart, Patrick E.,2007, GIS of selected geophysical and core data in the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope collected by the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1071, DVD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1071/)

Geophysics

Navigation

Navigation data recovered from 9 track tape

Logs

Data is in the Data Library - contact Data Manager (bbuczkowski@usgs.gov)

Chief Scientists' cruise report with ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, area maps, sidescan sonar trackmap for first leg F-90-3 (FA 90001) and core locations from second leg F-90-4 (FA 90003).

Coordinates for transponder navigation in support of SeaMARC and 3.5 kHz surveys and DAFE event log for Leg 1.

SeaMarc seismic log with equipment configuration, line numbers and start and end times, course, and speed.

Menlo Park DAFE event log containing line starts and ends, equipment configuration, and time on and off.

SeaMarc Technician's seismic log with equipment configuration, line numbers and start and end times, navigation and data acquisition notes, etc.

Q-Mips log containing line numbers, start and end dates and times, and filenames.

VHS tape log containing data acquisition, equipment configuration for subbottom and navigation systems, and acquisition notes.