Alternate Leg ID: GS 7903-2, Leg 2
Area of Operations: western Gulf of Maine, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic
Dates: June 1, 1979 to June 7, 1979
Chief scientist: Bob Oldale
Objectives: Investigate the structure and origin of Stellwagen Bank and Stellwagen Basin, locate the offshore extensions of the Clinton-Newbury and Bloody Bluff faults, and connect known Cretaceous and Jurassic seismic stratigraphy south of the New England seamounts with that north of the seamounts.
Type of Activity: Seismic profiling
Geophysical mapping
Information to be derived: Morphology
Summary: Continuous profiling with airgun, Uniboom, 3.5 kHz, gravimeter, and magnetometer: 1260 km.
USGS Project Number:
Contact: Diane Eskenasy ()
InfoBank: uses the identifier G-2-79-NE. Visit this site for more information.
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