USGS CMG S-5-78-EG Metadata

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

MCG Data Collection ID ---         S578EG
Institution Data Collection ID --- S578EG
NGDC ID ---                        06110023
Funding ---                        (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg ---          George Plafker
Study region ---                   +60.00000,+56.00000,-147.00000,-134.00000
Chief Scientist(s) ---             Paul Carlson
Name of vessel ---                 Sea Sounder (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 06/23/78     LV JUNEAU, AK
Date field data collection ended ---   07/10/78     AR YAKUTAT, AK
Parameters surveyed ---
   Bathymetry:                     surveyed, contained in data file
   Magnetics:                      (unspecified)
   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 ---     11/30/90
Contributing institution ---       USGS Branch of Pacific Marine Geology
Country ---                        United States

Navigation instrumentation ---     SAT-NAV-MAGNAVOX 702 LORAN C-MAGNAVOX TD
Position determination method ---  L601 INTEGRATED NAV SYSTEM RADAR

Bathymetry instrumentation ---            12 KHZ BATHYMETRY 3.5 KHZ BATHYMETRY
Additional forms of bathymetric data ---  (unspecified)
General rate of bathymetry in file ---    1.7 minutes
General collection rate of bathymetry --- (unspecified)
Assumed sound velocity ---                1463.0 m/sec
Bathymetric datum code ---                No correction applied (sea level)
Bathmetry interpolation scheme ---        (unspecified)

Magnetics instrumentation ---            SHIPBOARD MAGNETOMETER
Additional forms of magnetics data ---   (unspecified)
General rate of magnetics in file ---    (unspecified)
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 ---    (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 --- 160 KJ SINGLE CHAN ARCER
Formats of seismic data --- (unspecified)

Plafker, George, and Claypool, George, 1979, Petroleum source rock potential
of rocks dredged from the continental slope in the eastern Gulf of Alaska,
U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 79-295, URL:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/data/0611/06115003/usgs_ofr79-295_06115003.pdf

Hampton, M.A., Bouma, A.H., Carlson, P.R., Molnia, B.F., Clukey, E.C., and 
Sangrey, D.A.,
1978, Quantitative study of slope instability in the Gulf of Alaska: Offshore 
Technology
Conference Proceedings, no. 10, v. 4, p. 2307-2318.


Nelson, C.H., Kvenvolden, K.A., and Thor, D.R., 1979, Seafloor thermogenic gas 
seep, Norton Sound:
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1150, p. 154-155.


Molnia, B.F., and Carlson, P.R., 1980, Quaternary sedimentary facies of the 
northeast Gulf
of Alaska Continental Shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1175, p. 
158-159.


Carlson, Paul R., Plafker, George, and Bruns, Terry R., 1981, Seaward extension 
of the Fairweather
Fault on the southeastern Alaska shelf, in American Geophysical Union; 27th 
annual Pacific Northwest
regional meeting: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 62, no. 5, p. 
60.


Carlson, Paul R., Plafker, George, and Bruns, T.R., 1985, Map and selected 
seismic profiles
of the seaward extension of the Fairweather Fault, eastern Gulf of Alaska: U.S. 
Geological
Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1722, 2 sheets.


Carlson, Paul R., Plafker, George, Bruns, Terry R., and Levy, William P., 1979, 
Seaward extension
of the Fairweather Fault: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 0804-B, p. 
B135-B139.


Plafker, George, Carlson, Paul R., Coonrad, Warren L., Hunt, Susan J., and 
Quinterno, Paula, 1979,
Geologic implications of 1978 outcrop sample data from the continental slope in 
the eastern Gulf
of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 0804-B, p. B143-B146.


Bruns, Terry R., von Huene, Roland, Carlson, Paul R., and Keller, G. Randy, 
1983, The eastern
Gulf of Alaska transcurrent plate boundary and the migration of terranes, in 
Tectonique cassante
en distension et coulissement; seance specialisee de la Societe Geologique du 
Nord: Societe
Geologique du Nord Annales, v. 103, no. 2-3, p. 325-331.


Carlson, Paul R., Bruns, Terry R., and Plafker, George, 1988, Late Cenozoic 
offsets on
the offshore connection between the Fairweather and Queen Charlotte faults off 
Southeast
Alaska: Marine Geology, v. 85, no. 1, p. 89-97.


Bruns, T.R., and Carlson, P.R., 1987, Geology and petroleum potential of the
southeast Alaska continental margin, in D. Scholl, A. Grantz, and J. Vedder,
editors, Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of W. No.
America and adjacent ocean basins: Houston, TX, Circum-Pacific Council for
Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, v. 6, p. 269-282.