Field Activity 10BIM04

Identifier 10BIM04
Purpose Geomorphology, Geology, Island Evolution
Location MS Barrier Islands
Summary A total of 119 chirp 2-D subbottom profiles, 79 swath, 9 single beam, and 9 sidescan lines were collected.
Info derived Geologic framework to determine the island geomorphology, stratigraphy and geologic history.
Comments Additional Equipment: Knudsen 320.
Platform
G.K. Gilbert
40'
Itinerary
Start Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS 2010-08-30
End Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS 2010-09-10
Bounds
West -89.4115
East -88.57241453
North 30.30844651
South 30.17394925
Topic 6
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jack L KindingerJennifer L Miselis
Crew members
Young, Richard
Scientist, Staff
Lance E Thornton
Scientist, Staff
Dana S Wiese
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jack L Kindinger
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Dawn Lavoie

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Interferometric, Multibeam, Sidescan, Single Beam, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric 2
F190 DGPS/IMU Navigation (no data reported)
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data expected)
Vibracorer Geology (no data reported)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation 1
Chirp 512i Sub Bottom Profiler 5
Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320 Single Beam (no data reported)
Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe Sound Velocity (no data reported)
Klein Side Scan Sidescan 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
10BIM04-BA-pd-1 Interferometric Bathymetry System Swath Interferometric bathy grid as Geotiff Noreen A Buster
10BIM04-BA-pd-2 Interferometric Bathymetry System Data Series 739 GIS dataset Noreen A Buster
10BIM04-BA-pd-5 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Swath bathymetry trackline shapefile Arnell S Forde
10BIM04-SE-pd-4 Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data GeoMapApp Arnell S Forde
DS 724 arc Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data GIS Arnell S Forde
DS 724 nav Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data navigation Arnell S Forde
DS 724 profiles Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data profiles Arnell S Forde
DS 724 segy Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data agc SEGY Arnell S Forde
10BIM04-BS-pd-1 Klein Side Scan Side Scan Sonar grid as GeoTiff Arnell S Forde

Publications

Buster, N.A.; Pfeiffer, W.R.; Miselis, J.L.; Kindinger, J.L.; Wiese, D.S.; Reynolds, B.J., 2012, Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi: , https://doi.org/10.3133/ds739.

Forde, A.S.; Dadisman, S.V.; Kindinger, J.L.; Miselis, J.L.; Wiese, D.S.; Buster, N.A., 2012, Archive of digital chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 10BIM04 offshore Cat Island, Mississippi, September 2010: , https://doi.org/10.3133/ds724.

Kindinger, J.L.; Miselis, J.L.; Buster, N.A., 2014, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore from Cat Island, Mississippi: , 83, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141070.

Miselis, J.L.; Buster, N.A.; Kindinger, J.L., 2014, Refining the link between the Holocene development of the Mississippi River Delta and the geologic evolution of Cat Island, MS: implications for delta-associated barrier islands: 355, 274, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.021.