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Field Activity Details for field activity 1994-028-FA

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Other ID: 94-06

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Gregory Miller

Affiliate Investigator(s): Ann Trehu - Oregon State U.; Mitch Lyle - Boise State U.

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Study crustal structure and faults in an intense earthquake area; site survey for ODP work.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Newport, OR

End Port/Location: Eureka, CA

Start Date: 1994-06-08

End Date: 1994-06-24

Equipment Used: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, GPS (wh)

Information to be Derived: Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: VeeAnn Cross, Gregory Miller

Affiliate Staff:
A. Trehu
B. Wendler
R. Bowers
P. Kalk
T. Holt
C. Lendl - Oregon State U.; M. Lyle - Boise State U.; D. Dubois
K. Peal
B. Wooding
J. Dolan - WHOI

Notes: Final schedule depends on the shooting ship's schedule (R/V EWING). Original Submitted By field contained: Greg Miller, Uri ten Brink.
Project = OBS, OBS

Location:

Cape Mendocino, Mendocino Triple Junction, northern California, southern Oregon, United States, North America, North Pacific;

Boundaries
North: 42.74880507 South: 39.21901524 West: -126.00219727 East: -123.88546231

Platform(s):

photo of Wecoma
Wecoma

Publications

Trehu, A.M., and the Mendocino Working Group, 1995, Pulling the rug out from under California; seismic images of the Mendocino triple junction region: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 76 no. 38, doi: 10.1029/95EO00229.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, OBS equipment calibrations and documentation, and ship-to-OBS trackmaps.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ocean Bottom Seismometer --- Ocean Bottom Seismometer
GPS (wh) --- Navigation

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