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Summary Information for Field Activity 2010-018-FA

Area of Operations: Western Arctic Ocean

Dates: August 03, 2010 to September 05, 2010

Chief scientist: Deborah Hutchinson

   Brian Edwards, USGS-Menlo Park, CA

Objectives: Two-icebreaker US-Canada experiment to identify the outer limits of the extended continental shelf of each nation in the western Arctic Ocean.

Type of Activity: Sea floor mapping; Sampling; Bathymetric and Seismic mapping;Bathymetric and Seismic mapping

Information to be derived: Bathymetric maps; Sea floor map; Sediment thickness maps;

Summary: Collected 12 kHz Bathymetry (Simrad EM122) to identify the 2500-meter contour on widely spaced tracklines. Multichannel seismic profiles were collected aboard the LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT to map sediment thicknesses.

Contact: Bill Danforth (bdanforth@usgs.gov)

Related Links: http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2010/08/
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2010/08/fieldwork2.html
http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgcHealy/default.asp
http://continentalshelf.gov/

Platform Info:

Publications resulting from these data

Hutchinson, D.R., and Barth, G.A.,2010, Continental margins and the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project: MARGINS/GeoPRISMS Newsletter, no. 25: p. 5-11. (Also available at http://www.nsf-margins.org/Publications/Newsletters/Issue25.pdf)

Data Types and Locations:

BathymetrySeismics

 

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