U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

icon-dot-gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

icon-https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Archive of digitized analog boomer seismic reflection data collected during U.S. Geological Survey cruise Acadiana 87-2 in the northern Gulf of Mexico, June 1987

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program has actively collected geophysical and sedimentological data in the northern Gulf of Mexico for several decades, including shallow subsurface data in the form of high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles (HRSP). Prior to the mid-1990s most HRSP data were collected in analog format as paper rolls of continuous profiles up to 25 meters long. A large portion of this data resides in a single repository with minimal metadata. As part of the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program, scientists at the USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center are converting the analog paper records to digital format using a large-format continuous scanner. This data release serves as an archive of seismic profiles with headers, converted Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y format (SEG-Y) files, navigation data, and geographic information system (GIS) data files for digitized boomer seismic-reflection data collected from the Research Vessel (R/V) Acadiana. The Acadiana 87-2 geophysical cruise included seismic data collected in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Chandeleur Sound, and Mississippi Sound from June 15 to June 26, 1987.

Get Data and Metadata
Author(s) Stephen T Bosse orcid, James G Flocks orcid, Arnell S Forde orcid
Publication Date 2017-06-22
Beginning Date of Data 1987-06-15
Ending Date of Data 1987-06-26
Data Contact
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/F7F47MC2
Citation Bosse, S.T., Flocks, J.G., and Forde, A.S., 2017, Archive of digitized analog boomer seismic reflection data collected during U.S. Geological Survey cruise Acadiana 87-2 in the northern Gulf of Mexico, June 1987: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7F47MC2.
Metadata Contact
Metadata Date 2020-10-13
Related Publication
Citations of these data

Loading https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105910

Access public
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Loading...
Harvest Source: Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System
Harvest Date: 2025-01-22T04:21:20.072Z