k191yb.m77t and k191yb.h77t: MGD77T data and header files for single-beam bathymetry data for field activity K-1-91-YB in Yakutat Bay, Alaska from 06/22/1991 to 06/28/1991

• Main Authors: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2013
• Subjects: geoscientificinformation; oceans; Marine Geology; Marine Geophysics; Single-beam Bathymetry; Water Depth; Seafloor Topography; Gulf of Alaska; Glacier Bay; State of Alaska; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater; Yakutat; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/20d45db5-7190-44d0-af4f-8fe7f6b27a41

Single-beam bathymetry data along with radar and GPS navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise K-1-91-YB. The cruise was conducted in Yakutat Bay, Alaska from June 22 to June 28, 1991. The chief scientists were Paul Carlson from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA, and Ross Powell from Northern Illinois University. The overall purpose of this study is a continuation of previous studies of morainal bank and proximal environments of tidewater glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The geophysical source was a 7 kilohertz (kHz) Rayheon RTT 1000 system. These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/k/k191yb/html/k-1-91-yb.meta.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.