Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): William Dillon
Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles Paull, MBARI; Richard Coffin, NRL
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Giant piston coring for gas hydrate project.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Calica, Mexico
End Port/Location: Tampa, FL
Start Date: 2002-07-01
End Date: 2002-07-10
Equipment Used: Seismic reflection, Gravity corer, GPS (wh), Box corer, Piston corer
Information to be Derived: Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Giant box cores: 4, ~32 m; gravity heat flow: 21 penetrations, 9 sta, ~57 m; Calypso piston cores: 17, ~500 m; pore water samples: 458; water content/geotechnical samples: ~1100.
Staff: William Waite, William Winters
Affiliate Staff:
Thomas Lorenson
Co-Chief Scientist (USGS-Menlo); Jennifer Dougherty (USGS-Menlo); James Flocks (USGS-St. Pete); Pat Hart (USGS-Menlo); John Pohlman (College of William and Mary); Steve Hallam
Randy Keaten
Patrick Mitts
Charlie Paull
Bill Ussler (MBARI); Olya Boldini (Moscow State U.); Efthymios Tripsanas (Texas A&M); Ivana Novosel (U. Victoria
British Columbia); Yifeng Chen (U. Tokyo)
Notes: D102GM Cores archived at University of Southern Florida: 2550, 2551; cores archived in European French repository (LSCE): 2533, 2534, 2548, 2549, 2552, 2558, 2574, 2575, and 2576; cores archived at Texas A&M: all remaining.
Information from Foghorn: Giant piston coring system associated with ship; Chirp seismic/multibeam VHR single-channel; Chirp seismic/multibeam bathymetry; Calypso piston sea floor core; Gravity sea floor core; Box sea floor core
Location:
Tunica Mound, Pigmy Basin, Orca Basin, Bush Hill, Mississippi Canyon, north central Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 29.16921875 | South: 20.35607116 | West: -94.57998103 | East: -82.29726753 |
Platform(s):
 Marion-Dufresne |
Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Trentesaux, A., 2007, Sedimentologic analysis of cores recovered from the RV Marion Dufresne cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002, Chapter 5 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Brunner, C.A., 2007, Qualitative planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of Core MD02-2570, of Late Quaternary age, from the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chapter 11 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Hallam, S.J., Delong, E.F., Ussler, W., III, Paull, C.K., 2007, Methanogenic and methanotrophic archaeal diversity in northern Gulf of Mexico sediments, Chapter 10 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Labails, C., Geli, L., Sultan, N., Novosel, I., Winters, W.J., 2007, Thermal measurements from the Gulf of Mexico continental slope; results from the PAGE cruise, Chapter 6 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Lorenson, T.D., Cooper, A.K., Hart, P.E., Winters, W.J., 2007, Geologic setting and context of cores taken during the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 cruise of the RV Marion Dufresne in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chapter 2 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Lorenson, T.D., Dougherty, J.A., Flocks, J.G., 2007, Hydrocarbon gases from giant piston cores in the northern Gulf of Mexico; results from the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 cruise of the RV Marion Dufresne, July 2002, Chapter 9 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Stern, L.A., Kirby, S.H., 2007, Grain and pore structure imaging of gas hydrate from core MDO2-2569 (Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico); a first look by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Chapter 12 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Twichell, D.C. Cross, V.A., Paskevich, V.F., Hutchinson, D.R., Winters, W.J., and Hart, P.E., 2006, GIS of selected geophysical and core data in the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope collected by the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1071, DVD-ROM, also available from https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051071.
Ussler, W., III, Paull, C.K., 2007, Pore-water gradients in giant piston cores from the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chapter 8 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Waite, W.F., Santamarina, J.C., Cortes, D.D., Dugan, B., Espinoza, D.N., Germaine, J., Jang, J., Jung, J.W., Kneafsey, T.J., Shin, H., Soga, K., Winters, W.J., and Yun, T-S., 2009, Physical properties of hydrate-bearing sediments: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 47 no. RG4003, 38 p., doi: 10.1029/2008RG000279.
Wilcox-Cline, R., and Winters, W.J, 2011, The Influence of Grain Size on the Formation of Natural Gas Hydrate [abs.]: , 2011 Fall Meeing of the American Physical Society-American Assoc. for Physics Teachers-Society of Physics Students. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, November 18-19, 2011.
Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., Paull, C.K., Balut, Y., Boldina, O.M., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Brunner, C.A., Chen, Y., Cooper, A., Dearmay, J.L., Geli, L., Hart, P.E., Kirby, S.H., Labails, C., Lynch, F.L., Matsumoto, R., Novosel, I., Rogers, R.E., Stern, L.A., Sultan, N., Trentesaux, A., and Ussler, W.I., 2007, Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV MARION DUFRESNE in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002, Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1358, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., Paull, C.K., Balut, Y., 2007, Coring and gas hydrate-related operations during the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002, Chapter 3 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
Winters, W.J., Novosel, I., Boldina, O., Waite, W.F., Kelsey, S.A., Hallett, B.W., 2007, Physical properties of sediment obtained during the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002, Chapter 4 in Winters, W.J., Lorenson, T.D., and Paull, C.K., eds., Initial report of the IMAGES VIII/PAGE 127 gas hydrate and paleoclimate cruise on the RV Marion Dufresne in the Gulf of Mexico, 2-18 July 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (2004-1358), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041358.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Co-Chief Scientist's cruise summary of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, personnel activities, track map. Folder of information. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seismic reflection | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Sparker | |
| Gravity corer | --- | Geology | |
| GPS (wh) | --- | Navigation | 2002-018-FA-LN-001 (Cruise Navigation (text file)) |
| Box corer | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Piston corer | --- | Geology | 2002-018-FA-SC-001 (CORE samples) |
