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Project details
| Title: | National Facility External Users: J. Kennard (Geoscience Australia) |
| Id: | 2234 |
| Acronym: | National Facility External Users: J. Kennard |
| Investigator(s): | John Kennard
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| Description: | |
| Years: | 2006 |
List of surveys that this project was on.
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| Survey | Investigator | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SS 06/2006 [details] |
J. Kennard (Geoscience Australia) | Voyage Objective Areas of potential hydrocarbon seepage have been identified from existing regional seismic, bathymetry, echo-sounder and remote sensing (SAR synthetic aperture radar data). A number of prioritised areas were surveyed and mapped using multibeam swath bathymetry, 12 & 120 kHz echo-sounder, 120 kHz side-scan sonar, 1.5 kHz sub-bottom profiler and near-surface water fluorometer (generally via the vessels seawater intake system). This data provided information on bathymetry, nature of the seafloor, sediment types, sub-seabed stratigraphy and faulting, and potential evidence for shallow gas. This data was then used to select specific sampling sites. These sampling sites were chosen to reflect a range of areas of suspected natural hydrocarbon seepage for geochemical and sedimentological sampling (CTDs, grabs, gravity cores, vibro cores, dredges and seafloor video-camera footage). |