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Metadata
ID L-12-81-NP
Also Known As L-12-81-NP
L-C-81-NP
Abstract Chief Scientists: Dennis Mann, Don Tompkins. Data (12khz, 3dot5khz, gravity, landtie, courserecorder, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, 24channel, airgun, sonobuoy) of field activity L-12-81-NP in North Pacific Ocean from 09/19/1981 to 10/05/1981
Chief Scientist Dennis Mann
Don Tompkins
Platform Samuel Phillips Lee
Area of Operation
North Pacific Ocean
Location map L-12-81-NP location map of where navigation equipment operated
Bounding Coordinates 45.35836
-130.79816    -122.11925
37.50413
Ports leave Redwood City, CA
arrive Treasure Island, CA
leave Crescent City, CA
arrive Crescent City, CA
Dates 09/19/1981 (JD 262) to 10/05/1981 (JD 278)
Analog Materials list
Index map

L-12-81-NP map of where navigation equipment operated

Crew
Dennis Mann Chief Scientist
Don Tompkins Chief Scientist
Aaron Dunwald Chief Engineer
Allen Adams Watchstander
Barb Blubaugh Dafe Curator
Barbara Seekins Watchstander
Chris Gutmacher Geologist
Dan Hurlbert Mechanical Technician
Dave Hogg Electronics Technician
Dave Melendrez Chief Mate
Greg Smith Watchstander
Jan Morton Geologist
Kaye Kinoshita Navigator
Kevin O'Toole Mechanical Technician
Lisa Gossett Navigator
Mark Breitbart Watchstander
Mike Casey Watchstander
Roy Fields Electronics Technician
Terry Ruff Ship Captain
Equipment Used
12khz
3dot5khz
gravity
landtie
courserecorder
dopplersonar
integratednavigation
RhoRho
transitsatellite
24channel
airgun
sonobuoy
NGDC Overview
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DATA COLLECTION OVERVIEW (use NGDC GEODAS CD to retrieve data)
MCG Data Collection ID --- L1281NP
Institution Data Collection ID --- L1281NP
NGDC ID --- 06050060
Funding --- (unspecified)
Project, Cruise & Leg --- (unspecified)
Study region --- +46.00000,+37.00000,-131.00000,-122.00000
Chief Scientist(s) --- Don Tompkins
Name of vessel --- Lee (surface ship)
Date field data collection started --- 09/19/81 LV REDWOOD CITY
Date field data collection ended --- 10/05/81 ARRIVE TREASURE ISLAND
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 --- 05/04/88
Contributing institution --- USGS Branch of Pacific Marine Geology
Country --- United States
Navigation instrumentation --- SATNAV,INTAEGRATED NAV,LORAN C
Position determination method --- SATNAV,LORAN C
Bathymetry instrumentation --- 12KHZ NARROW 1 SEC,3.5KHZ WIDE 1 SEC
Additional forms of bathymetric data --- ANALOG
General rate of bathymetry in file --- 1.9 minutes
General collection rate of bathymetry --- 20/SECONDS
Assumed sound velocity --- 1463.0 m/sec
Bathymetric datum code --- No correction applied (sea level)
Bathmetry interpolation scheme --- (unspecified)
Magnetics instrumentation --- PROTON PRECESSION MAG-GEOMETRICS G-801
Additional forms of magnetics data --- ANALOG
General rate of magnetics in file --- 1.0 minutes
General collection rate of magnetics --- 4 seconds
Magnetic sensor tow distance --- 213 meters
Magnetic sensor depth --- (unspecified)
Two sensor horizontal separation --- (unspecified)
Residual magnetics reference field --- IGRF-75
Method of applying residual field --- LINEAR INTERPOLATION BETWEEN NAV PTS
Gravity instrumentation --- L&R S-53
Additional forms of gravity data --- ANALOG
General rate of gravity in file --- 2.0 minutes
General collection rate of gravity --- (unspecified)
Theoretical gravity formula --- (unspecified)
Reference system --- (unspecified)
Corrections applied --- (unspecified)
Starting land tie --- 979951.5 PIER 5 REDWOOD CITY
Ending land tie --- 979977.4 PIER 21 TREASURE IS
Seismic instrumentation --- UNIBOOM, SINGLE CHANNEL,24 CHANNEL
Formats of seismic data --- ANALOG ROLLS, DIGITAL
Publications
Morton, Janet L., Sleep, Norman H., Normark, William R., and Tompkins, Donald H., 1987,
Structure of the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge from seismic reflection records, in Special
section on The southern Juan de Fuca Ridge; hydrothermal fluids, sulfides, and geophysical
studies [modified]: Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, v. 92,
no. 11, p. 11,315-11,326.

Morton, Janet L., Normark, William R., Mann, Dennis M., and Tompkins, Donald H., 1987, Geology,
evolution, and mineral potential of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, in Scholl, David W.,
Grantz, Arthur, and Vedder, John G., eds., Geology and resource potential of the continental
margin of western North America and adjacent ocean basins, Beaufort Sea to Baja California:
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 6, p. 537-547.

Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., and Reiss, Carol A., eds., 1994, Geologic,
hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern
California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, 359 p.

Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., and Reiss, Carol A., 1994, Geologic,
hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough; an introduction, in Morton,
Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., and Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal,
and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California:
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 1-18.

Morton, Janet L., and Fox, Christopher G., 1994, Structural setting and interaction
of volcanism and sedimentation at Escanaba Trough; geophysical results, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 21-43.

Davis, Earl E., and Becker, Keir, 1994, Thermal and tectonic structure of Escanaba
Trough; new heat-flow measurements and seismic-reflection profiles, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 45-64.

Denlinger, Roger P., and Holmes, Mark L., 1994, A thermal and mechanical model for
sediment hills and associated sulfide deposits along Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 65-75.

Karlin, Robert E., and Morton, Janet L., 1994, Crustal magnetization and basement
structure of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol
A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge,
offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 77-90.

Normark, William R., Gutmacher, Christina E., Zierenberg, Robert A., Wong, Florence L.,
and Rosenbauer, Robert J., 1994, Sediment fill of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 91-129.

Karlin, Robert E., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Sedimentation and neotectonism
in the SESCA area, Escanaba Trough, southern Gorda Ridge, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 131-141.

Ross, Stephanie L., and Zierenberg, Robert A., 1994, Volcanic geomorphology of the SESCA
and NESCA sites, Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 143-151.

Davis, Alice S., Clague, David A., and Friesen, Walter B., 1994, Petrology and mineral
chemistry of basalt from Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 153-170.

Zierenberg, Robert A., Morton, Janet L., Koski, Randolph A., and Ross, Stephanie L., 1994,
Geologic setting of massive sulfide mineralization in Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet
L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic
studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological
Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 171-197.

Campbell, Andrew C., German, Chris R., Palmer, Martin R., Gamo, Toshitaka, and Edmond,
John M., 1994, Chemistry of hydrothermal fluids from Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, in
Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal,
and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California:
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 201-221.

Bohlke, J.K., and Shanks, W.C., III, 1994, Stable isotope study of hydrothermal vents
at Escanaba Trough; observed and calculated effects of sediment-seawater interaction,
in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal,
and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California:
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 223-239.

Magenheim, Andrew J., and Gieskes, Joris M., 1994, Evidence for hydrothermal fluid flow
through surficial sediments, Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A.,
Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough,
Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022,
p. 241-255.

Zierenberg, Robert A., and Shanks, Wayne C., III, 1994, Sediment alteration associated
with massive sulfide formation in Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge; the importance of seawater
mixing and magnesium metasomatism, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss,
Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough,
Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022,
p. 257-277.

Kvenvolden, Keith A., Rapp, John B., and Hostettler, Frances D., 1994, Hydrocarbons in
sediment from Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss,
Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough,
Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022,
p. 279-292.

Koski, Randolph A., Benninger, Laura M., Zierenberg, Robert A., and Jonasson, Ian R.,
1994, Composition and growth history of hydrothermal deposits in Escanaba Trough,
southern Gorda Ridge, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A., Reiss, Carol A.,
eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba Trough, Gorda Ridge,
offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2022, p. 293-324.

Grassle, J. Frederick, and Petrecca, Rosemarie F., 1994, Soft-sediment hydrothermal
vent communities of Escanaba Trough, in Morton, Janet L., Zierenberg, Robert A.,
Reiss, Carol A., eds., Geologic, hydrothermal, and biologic studies at Escanaba
Trough, Gorda Ridge, offshore Northern California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
2022, p. 327-335.
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