Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Uri Ten Brink
Affiliate Investigator(s): Juan Acosta - Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia-Madrid
Information Specialist(s): Michael Taylor
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Multichannel, Sonar: Multibeam, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multichannel seismic and multibeam sonar survey near oceanic plate fracture controlling earthquake, tilting, landslides, and tsunami near Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
End Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Start Date: 1997-05-04
End Date: 1997-05-12
Equipment Used: P-code GPS, Gravity meter (wh), Magnetometer (wh), Multibeam swath bathymetry, Multichannel seismics
Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Multichannel seismic reflection profiles; Multibeam bathymetry; Gravity; Magnetics.
Staff: Barry Irwin, David Nichols, Thomas O'Brien, Uri Ten Brink, Jeremy Loss, Michael Taylor
Affiliate Staff:
Kevin O'Toole
Harold Williams - Western C&MG; Juan Acosta
Araceli Munoz
Carlos Palomo
P. Herranz
J.L. Sanz
J. Molinero - Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia; Ramon Vegas
Andres Carbo - Universidad de Complutense de Madrid; Juan Tomas Vazquez - Universidad de Cadiz; Dwight Coleman - University of Rhode Island; Nancy Grindlay - University of North Carolina; F. Delano - University of Puerto Rico
Notes:
Project = PRICO-97, PRICO-97
Location:
offshore northeast Puerto Rico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 20.75 | South: 19.25 | West: -65.75 | East: -63 |
Platform(s):
Hesperides |
ten Brink, U.S., Marshak, Stephen, and Granja Bruna, Jose-Luis, 2009, Bivergent thrust wedges surrounding oceanic island arcs; insight from observations and sandbox models of the northeastern Caribbean plate: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121 no. 11-12, doi: 10.1130/B26512.1.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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P-code GPS | --- | Navigation | |
Gravity meter (wh) | --- | Gravity | |
Magnetometer (wh) | --- | Magnetics | |
Multibeam swath bathymetry | --- | Multibeam | |
Multichannel seismics | --- | Multichannel |