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Seismic Reflection, Geometrics multi-channel streamer common midpoint brute stack profile images, USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (PNG images)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2017-05-21
End Date
2017-05-26

Citation

Baldwin, W.E., Ackerman, S.D., Worley, C.R., Danforth, W.W., and Chaytor, J.D, 2018, High-resolution geophysical data collected along the Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2017-003-FA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7X929K6.

Summary

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic gas in the shallow [...]

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2017-003-FA_MCS_Images_browse.jpg
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2017-003-FA_MCS_Images.zip
“zip compressed archive of Geometrics MCS profile PNG images”
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Purpose

These PNG images represent approximately 550 km of multi-channel streamer seismic-reflection data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during cruise 2017-003-FA along the Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana. Images of each common midpoint brute stack seismic profile were generated in order to provide portable and easily viewable alternatives to the SEGY versions of the data. Each profile image can be hotlinked to its corresponding trackline navigation contained within the Esri polyline shapefile '2017-003-FA_MCS_Tracklines.shp'. Even 100 common midpoint index marks (with labels every 500 CMPs) along the top of the PNG images correlate to the positions of 100-CMP intervals within the Esri point shapefile '2017-003-FA_MCS_100cmp.shp'.

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