Area of Operations: Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Dates: September 20, 2011 to September 26, 2011
Chief scientist: Uri ten Brink
Objectives: high-resolution MCS survey of the continental slope NE of the Hudson canyon. This area is unique along the Atlantic slope in having many landslides and hardly any submarine canyons. The cruise aimed to characterize and tie shelf, slope and rise stratigraphy together. It was also a test cruise for the new MCS streamer purchased by the center
Type of Activity: Seismic profiling;
Information to be derived: Seismic reflection profiles
Summary: 1000 km of continuous seismic reflection data collected by Geometrics digital streamer (GeoEel) with a 6 kjoule Applied Acoustics sparker sound source
Contact: Claudia Flores (cflores@usgs.gov)
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