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Field:Marine NBP0007A

Lead Scientist	Role	Institution	Award
Austin, James	Scientist:Chief	UTIG	OPP98-14041

Scientific References

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• Barker D.H.N., G. Christeson, J.A. Austin, and I.W.D. Dalziel, "Back-arc basin evolution and cordilleran orogenesis: Insights from new ocean bottom seismograph refraction profiling in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica", Geology, 31: 107-110, 2003, DOI
• Christeson G.L., D.H.N. Barker, J.A. Austin, and I.W.D. Dalziel, "Deep crustal structure of Bransfield Strait: Initiation of a backarc basin by rift reactivation and propagation", J. Geophys. Res., 108: 2492, 2003, DOI 10.129/2003JB002468.   (View Reference)

Expedition Metadata

Program Summary Information

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Project: The Young Marginal Rift as a Key to Understanding the Rift-Drift Transition and Andean Orogenesis: OBS Refraction Profiling for Crustal Structure in the Bransfield Strait
Entry Type: Expedition
Platform: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer
Platform Operator: RPSC

Date	Location
2000-10-27	Punta Arenas, Chile
2000-11-18	Punta Arenas, Chile

Navigation Boundaries

52.35321 S
70.90624 W	+	55.78203 W
63.15255 S

Instruments

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• Array:Seismic:MCS
• Gravimeter
• Navigation
• Sonar:Multibeam(SeaBeam,2112)

Personnel

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Scientific Personnel	Role	Institution
Austin, James	Scientist:Chief	UTIG

Related Documents

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Content	Format
Report:Technical:Cruise	PDF

Data Inventory

Sensor Data

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Derived Data

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Data Set	Device Information	Repository	Event Information	Investigator	References
Seismic:Reflection:MCS	Array Seismic:MCS:Palmer	UTIG	NotProvided	Austin, J.	NotProvided

Field Data

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Data Set	Device Information	Repository	Event Information	Investigator	References
Backscatter:Acoustic Bathymetry:Swath	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Sonar:Multibeam:SB2112:NBPalmer(SeaBeam,2112)	MGDS	NotApplicable	Austin, J.	NotProvided
Bathymetry:Swath	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Sonar:Multibeam:SB2112:NBPalmer(SeaBeam,2112)	NOAA:NGDC	NotApplicable	Austin, J.	NotProvided
Gravity:Field	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Gravimeter	MGDS	NotApplicable	Austin, J.	NotProvided
Navigation:Primary	R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer Navigation	MGDS	NotApplicable	Austin, J.	NotProvided