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Field Activity Details for field activity 1990-013-FA

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Other ID: KJ-90-1, KJ-90-2

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kenneth F. Parolski

Affiliate Investigator(s): Randolph McBride, LA Geol. Survey, Leg 1; Mark Byrnes, Louisiana Geol. Survey, Leg 2

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sparker, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect nearshore and Mississippi Sound high-resolution seismics as part of coastal project to study coastal erosion and offshore sand resources.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Gulfport, MS

End Port/Location: Gulfport, MS

Start Date: 1990-06-21

End Date: 1990-06-27

Equipment Used: ORE GeoPulse, Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer, GPS (wh), Loran-C

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: GeoPulse: 18 lines, 410 km.

Staff: Kenneth F. Parolski

Affiliate Staff:
Jerry Taft
MS Minerals Tech. Cent.; Chuck O'Hara
MS Minerals Tech. Cent.; Brian Blanchard
LGS (Leg 1 only).

Notes:
Project = MS/AL/USGS Cooperative, MS/AL/USGS Cooperative

Location:

Mississippi Sound, Mississippi, Alabama, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 30.34917609 South: 29.12603244 West: -89.20887783 East: -87.47741053

Platform(s):

photo of Kit Jones
Kit Jones

Publications

Sanford, J.M., Harrison, A.S., Wiese, D.S., and Flocks, J.G., 2009, Archive of digitized analog Boomer seismic reflection data collected from the Mississippi-Alabama-Florida Shelf during cruises onboard the R/V KIT JONES, June 1990 and July 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 429, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds429.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, and trackmap. Also has pre-cruise report with similar information.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ORE GeoPulse --- Boomer
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Sparker
1990-013-FA-SE-001 (analog tape of seismic data)
Scanned record sections of Boomer data
GPS (wh) --- Navigation
Nav data
Loran-C --- Navigation

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