Pictures from the Ol’ Miss!

June 21st, 2010

 So we found a new fault! More like a set of faults really. We were drifting backwards down the Mississippi when it showed up on our CHIRP data. Its unbelievably clear. Also it appears in the Claiborne layers which is where the aquifer is that provides water to Memphis and the rest of the region. So this is really a big find. The CHIRP is a single-channel device with both the sender and receiver directly on it. It emits a noise that sounds sort of like a chirp which is of course where it receives its name. It gets very high resolution data on the first 10-30m but becomes very noisy after wards. Because of how interesting and important this find was we decided to spend the next day recrossing the area with just the CHIRP. So on Friday we made five North-South and five East-West passes over these faults. From the data we can tell it is dipping towards the North and East. Beatrice and I have discussed it and she thinks it would be a great region for me to focus on this summer. So when we return to Memphis I am going to have to figure out how to put CHIRP data into the landmark software and produce a 3D map of the surface. More details forthcoming. In other news I finally moved a lot of my pictures from my phone to the computer and have begun posting them on facebook along with a few good ones here.

The Strong: 

The Tiger Shark: 

The Barge with the streamer and airgun being pulled behind it: