Summary Information for Field Activity 1999-023-FA

Area of Operations: southern Long Island, New York, inner shelf, Hudson Shelf Valley, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: July 26, 1999 to August 06, 1999

Chief scientist: Bill Schwab
Rob Thieler

Paul Gayes - CCU

Objectives: Leg 1: geophysics; Leg 2: vibracoring.

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived:

Summary: Leg 1 went well. Leg 2 was cancelled after determining that the coring rig was overweight relative to ship's specs and thus presented an untenable operation.

Contact: Rob Thieler (rthieler@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier M-23-99-LI. Visit this site for more information.

Related Links:

- Download 99023.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth

Platform Info:

MEGAN T MILLER

Publications resulting from these data

Thieler, E.R., Hill, J.C., Brooks, R., Gutierrez, B., Irwin, B.J., and Nichols, D.R.,2001, Archive of Datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise MGNM 99023, southern Long Island, NY inner shelf and Hudson Shelf Valley, 26-31 July 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-273, 5 CD-ROMs

Thieler, E.R., Hill, J.C., Brooks, R., Gutierrez, B., Irwin, B.J., and Nichols, D.R.,2001, Archive of Boomer subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise MGNM 99023, southern Long Island, NY inner shelf and Hudson Shelf Valley, 26-31 July, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-274, 6 CD-ROMs

Data Types and Locations:

Navigation

Chirp Field Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps

Boomer Field Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps

Logs

Sidescan sonar and subbottom log containing file names, start and end times, data acquisition notes, etc.

Navigation log containing line numbers and times and data acquisition notes.

Samples

Seismics

Chirp Subbottom Data images

Boomer Subbottom Data images