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Crew
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Paul Carlson
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Chief Scientist, USGS Western Region
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Keith Kvenvolden
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Chief Scientist, USGS Western Region
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Dean Seidel
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Captain
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Marlene Mozgala
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Mark Larsen
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Equipment Used
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Purpose
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Determine types of hydrocarbons in the bottom
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sediments of Gulf of Alaska and Prince Wm Sound and sources of oil or tar
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found on the insular beaches of the sound.
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Information to be Derived
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Types of hydrocarbons and isotopic characteristics of tars and oils found on the beaches.
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Summary
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Collected bottom samples on shelf between Cross Sound and PWS and w/in PWS. Collected tars and oils from several beaches in sw PWS.
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Notes
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(from WRUSGS Bulletin (9/13/96)
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USGS-NOAA COOP CRUISE A-OK
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For the third consecutive year the Prince William Sound oil spill team has
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had a very successful "piggy-back" cruise on the NOAA ship RAINIER. We
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again were able to search several beaches and found both old tar ('64 quake-
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Monterey tar) and oil (EXXON VALDEZ spill of North Slope crude); however, this
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year we added another aspect to our search. Fran Hostettler, Keith Kvenvolden,
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and Paul Carlson joined the RAINIER in Seattle, enjoyed the scenic trip up the
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inside passage, and then began bottom sampling on the shelf between Cross
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Sound and PWS. We are testing EXXON's hypothesis that much of the
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background hydrocarbon in the PWS sediment came from oil seeps near the
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shoreline of the Gulf of Alaska and was carried along attached to particles of
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suspended glacial flour by the Alaskan Coastal Current and into PWS. We
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collected samples at nine stations, and now the jury is out until the organic
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geochem team can obtain lab results. We all are very appreciative to the folks
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from the RAINIER for their great hospitality and willing assistance on this
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trip. We give Fran (that is Hostettler, not Hurricane Fran) all the credit for
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the marvelous weather she brought along on her first trip to Alaska. : Paul
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Carlson.
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Publications
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Carlson, Paul R., and others, 1997, Fate of spilled oil in Prince William Sound:
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diary of a forensic geology study: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-518, 87 p.
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Got Help?
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For R-1-96-PW, we would appreciate any information on -- activity type, contract, days at sea, dive count, funding, information specialist, kms of navigation, NGDC Info, organization, owner, ports, project number, scanned materials, seismic description, station count, station description, submersible, tabulated info.
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