Alternate Leg ID: 81-G-7-1
Area of Operations: intraslope basins, Carancahua Basin, Gyre Basin, Orca Basin, Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic
Dates: May 01, 1981 to May 09, 1981
Objectives: Collect box and piston cores from 3 intraslope basins and from an area of the Mississippi Delta. Samples to be analyzed for geochemicals, texture and geotechnical parameters.
Type of Activity:
Information to be derived:
Summary: 12 kHz bathymetry data: 10 nm (18.5 km); 3.5 kHz seismic reflection data: 50 nm (92.6 km); Box cores: 11; Piston cores: 10; Dredge: 1; Drift bottles deployed: 24.
USGS Project Number: EA
Contact: Jack Kindinger (jkindinger@usgs.gov)
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