USGS CMG L-7-83-SP Metadata

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

MCG Data Collection ID ---         L783SP
Institution Data Collection ID --- L783SP
NGDC ID ---                        06050067
Funding ---                        (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg ---          SOUTH PACIFIC / NEW ZEALAND
Study region ---                   -39.00000,-42.00000,+175.00000,+180.00000
Chief Scientist(s) ---             MONTY HAMPTON, KEITH LEWIS
Name of vessel ---                 Lee (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 12/29/83     AR LYTTELTON,NZ
Date field data collection ended ---   12/31/83     LV WELLINGTON,N.Z.
Parameters surveyed ---
   Bathymetry:                     surveyed, contained in data file
   Magnetics:                      surveyed, contained in data file
   Gravity:                        (unspecified)
   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 ---     07/07/87
Contributing institution ---       USGS Branch of Pacific Marine Geology
Country ---                        United States

Navigation instrumentation ---     (unspecified)
Position determination method ---  (unspecified)

Bathymetry instrumentation ---            12KHZ
Additional forms of bathymetric data ---  ANALOG
General rate of bathymetry in file ---    1.2 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 ---            PROTON PRECESSION MAG
Additional forms of magnetics data ---   ANALOG RECORDS
General rate of magnetics in file ---    0.8 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 ---            SHIPBOARD GRAVITY METER
Additional forms of gravity data ---   ANALOG RECORDS
General rate of gravity in file ---    (unspecified)
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 --- 3.5KHZ,SNGL CH AIRGUN/UNIBOOM/MULTI.MNTR
Formats of seismic data --- ANALOG

Pettinga, Jarg R., Lewis, Keith B., Hampton, Monty A., and Davey, Fred J., 1984, 
Preliminary
interpretations of near-surface multi-channel seismic data, across the obliquely 
convergent
Hikurangi margin; offshore eastern North Island, in Geological Society of New 
Zealand annual
conference 1984; programme and abstracts: Geological Society of New Zealand 
Miscellaneous
Publication, v. 31A. 


Davey, F.J., Hampton, M.A., Childs, J.R., Fisher, M.A., Lewis, K., and Pettinga, 
J.R., 1986,
Structure of a growing accretionary prism, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand: 
Boulder, CO,
Geology, v. 14, no. 8, p. 663-666.


Davey, Frederick J., Hampton, M.A., and Lewis, K., 1986, Convergent plate margin 
east of
North Island, New Zealand: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 70,
no. 7, p. 918-919.


Kvenvolden, Keith A; Golan-Bac, Margaret, 1987, Methane and other hydrocarbon
gases in sediments of the southern Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey 
Open-File Report
87-0401, 23 p.


Lewis, Keith B., Pettinga, J.R., Hampton, M.A., and Davey, Frederick J., 1986, 
Sedimentary patterns
at the Hikurangi Margin accretionary prism, in Sediments down-under;
12th international sedimentological congress: Canberra, Australia, Bureau of 
Mineral Resources,
Geology and Geophysics.


Wong, Florence L., Richmond, B.A., Greene, H.G., Dingler, John R., Hein, James 
R.,
Kvenvolden, Keith A., Marlow, M.S., Morton, Janet L., Rubin, D.M., Scholl, D.W., 
and
Vedder, J.G., 1991, SOPAC; a decade of research on mineral and hydrocarbon 
resources in
the South Pacific, in Good, Elizabeth E., Slack, John F, and Kotra, Rama K., 
eds.,
USGS research on mineral resources, 1991; program and abstracts: U.S. Geological 
Survey
Circular 1062, p. 78-79.


Kvenvolden, Keith A., and Niem, A.R., 1989, Hydrocarbon gases in sediments of
the Solomon Islands area, in Vedder, J.G., and Bruns, T.R., eds., Geology and
offshore resources of Pacific: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral
Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 12, p. 283-286.