Summary Information for Field Activity 1993-008-FA

Area of Operations: Lake Erie, Lorain, Fairport Harbor, Ohio, Great Lakes, United States, Canada, North America

Dates: May 14, 1993 to May 21, 1993

Chief scientist: Ron Circe

Jonathan "Nate" Fuller - Ohio Geological Survey

Objectives: Sidescan sonar, bathymetric and high-resolution geophysical (seismic) survey of Lake Erie.

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived:

Summary: From May 14-21 completed 316.8 km of tracklines, Lorain to Fairport Harbor, OH to Canadian waters. This 4th cruise completed reconnaissance of the Ohio part of Lake Erie, totalling 1211.86 km of sidescan, digital bathymetry, and high-resolution sub-bottom data. 17 tracklines.

Contact: Ron Circe ()

InfoBank: uses the identifier G-15-93-LE. Visit this site for more information.

Related Links:

- Download 93008.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth

Platform Info:

GS-1

Publications resulting from these data

Fuller, J.A., Circe, R.C., and Oldale, R.N.,1995, The geologic framework of the Ohio area of Lake Erie: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-220, 23 p.. (Available as a PDF version). (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr95220)

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Data Types and Locations:

Bathymetry

Navigation

Trackmap with line numbers for Field Activities 91028, 92012, 92022, 93008, and 93017.

Raw navigation data files.

Logs

Chief Scientist's report of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, seismic and sidescan sonar line list, etc.

Q-MIPS log describing sidescan data acquisition.

Loran navigation printout with 30 second fixes, Julian day, time, latitude, longitude, time delays, speed, bearing, water depth. etc.

Seismics

Sonar

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