USGS CMG F-1-86-GA Metadata

Associated cruises:


  F-1-86-GA
  F-6-89-GA
  F-7-89-EG
  F-9-88-WG

Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) tact offshore
GLORIA

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DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW  (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data)

MCG Data Collection ID ---         F186GA
Institution Data Collection ID --- F186GA
NGDC ID ---                        06780008
Funding ---                        (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg ---          GLORIA
Study region ---                   +60.00000,+54.00000,-166.00000,-139.00000
Chief Scientist(s) ---             Mike Fisher
Name of vessel ---                 Farnella (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 06/24/86     YAKUTAT, ALASKA
Date field data collection ended ---   07/03/86     DUTCH HARBOR, ALASKA
Parameters surveyed ---
   Bathymetry:                     surveyed, contained in data file
   Magnetics:                      surveyed, contained in data file
   Gravity:                        surveyed, contained in data file
   High-resolution seismics:       (unspecified)
   Deep penetration seismics:      (unspecified)
Format --- 

(I1,A8,F5.2,4I2,F5.3,F8.5,F9.5,I1,F6.4,F6.1,I2,i1,3F6.1,I1,F5.1,F6.0,F7.1,F6.1,F5.1,A8,4I1)
Date of data input to NGDC ---     12/11/90
Contributing institution ---       USGS Branch of Pacific Marine Geology
Country ---                        United States

Navigation instrumentation ---     Loran C Navigation GPS Satellite Transit
Position determination method ---   Satellite

Bathymetry instrumentation ---            10 kHz Bathymetry 3.5 kHz Bathymetry
Additional forms of bathymetric data ---  (unspecified)
General rate of bathymetry in file ---    1.0 minutes
General collection rate of bathymetry --- (unspecified)
Assumed sound velocity ---                (unspecified)
Bathymetric datum code ---                No correction applied (sea level)
Bathmetry interpolation scheme ---        (unspecified)

Magnetics instrumentation ---            (unspecified)
Additional forms of magnetics data ---   (unspecified)
General rate of magnetics in file ---    0.9 minutes
General collection rate of magnetics --- (unspecified)
Magnetic sensor tow distance ---         (unspecified)
Magnetic sensor depth ---                (unspecified)
Two sensor horizontal separation ---     (unspecified)
Residual magnetics reference field ---   (unspecified)
Method of applying residual field ---    (unspecified)

Gravity instrumentation ---            (unspecified)
Additional forms of gravity data ---   (unspecified)
General rate of gravity in file ---    1.0 minutes
General collection rate of gravity --- (unspecified)
Theoretical gravity formula ---        (unspecified)
Reference system ---                   (unspecified)
Corrections applied ---                (unspecified)
Starting land tie ---                  (unspecified)
Ending land tie   ---                  (unspecified)

Seismic instrumentation --- 2-Channel Air Gun
Formats of seismic data --- (unspecified)

Paskevich, Valerie F.; Wong, Florence L.; O'Malley, John J.; Stevenson, Andrew
J.; Gutmacher, Christina E., 2010, GLORIA sidescan-sonar imagery for parts of
the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent areas, URL:
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/#search:basic/query=OFR%202010-1332/page=1/page_size=100:0

Carlson, Paul R., Bruns, Terry R., and Fisher, Michael A., 1990, Development of 
slope
valleys in the glacimarine environment of a complex subduction zone, northern Gulf of
Alaska, in Dowdeswell, Julian A., and Scourse, James D., eds., Glacimarine 
environments;
processes and sediments: Geological Society Special Publications, v. 53, p. 139-153.


Carlson, P.R., Bruns, T.R., Mann, D.M., and Stevenson, A.J., 1996, Gloria
imagery links sedimentaiton in Aleutian Trench and Abyssal Plain to Yakutat
Margin via deep-sea channels: Houston, TX, Gulf Publishing Co., Fifth
Circum-Pacific Energy and Mineral Resources Conference Transactions,
p. 695-702.