Sonic Waveform Data
Science operator: Texas A&M University
Hole: U1520C
Expedition: 375
Location: Hikurangi Subduction Margin (SW Pacific Ocean)
Latitude: 38° 58.1532' S
Longitude: 179° 7.9112' E
Logging date: April 9, 2018
Sea floor depth (driller's): 3533 m DRF
Sea floor depth (logger's): 3531 m WRF
Total penetration: 4587.1 m DRF (1054.1 m DSF)
Total core recovered: 235.4 m (57.7 % of cored section)
Oldest sediment recovered: Probably Cretaceous
Lithology: Cemented sandstone and conglomerate with grains of volcaniclastics and altered basalts
ACOUSTIC TOOL USED: DSI (Dipole Sonic Imager)
Recording mode: Monopole P&S, Upper and Lower Dipole, and Stoneley mode (all passes).
Remarks about the recording: none.
MONOPOLE P&S MODE: measures compressional and hard-rock shear slowness. The monopole transmitter is excited by a high-frequency pulse, which reproduces conditions similar to previous sonic tools.
UPPER DIPOLE MODE: measures shear wave slowness using firings of the upper dipole transmitter.
LOWER DIPOLE MODE: measures shear wave slowness using firings of the lower dipole transmitter.
STONELEY MODE: measures low-frequency Stoneley wave slowness. The monopole transmitter, driven by a low-frequency pulse, generates the Stoneley wave.
Acoustic data are recorded in DLIS format. Each of the eight waveforms generally consists of 512 samples, each recorded every 10 (monopole P&S) and 40 microsec (dipolemodes), at depth intervals of 15.24 cm (6 inches).The original waveforms in DLIS format are first loaded on a virtual PC machine using Schlumberger's Techlog log analysis package. The packed waveform data files are run through a module that applies a gain correction. After they are exported from Techlog in LAS format they are converted into binaryand GIF format (images) are cconverted using in-house software.
Number of columns: 4097
Number of rows: 5906 (downlog)
Number of rows: 6165 (main pass)
Number of rows: 613 (repeat pass)
The following files have been loaded:
DSI from HRLA/DSI/HLDS/EDTC-B (Downlog, drill pipe at 596 m WMSF, casing at 642 m WMSF)
375-U1520C_ldip_d.bin: 0-907.8 m WMSF
375-U1520C_mono_p1.bin: 0-907.8 m WMSF
375-U1520C_st_d.bin: 0-907.8 m WMSF
375-U1520C_udip_d.bin: 0-907.8 m WMSF
DSI from HRLA/DSI/HLDS/EDTC-B (Main pass, drill pipe at 596 m WMSF, casing at 642 m WMSF)
375-U1520C_ldip_main.bin: 0-947 m WMSF
375-U1520C_mono_main.bin:0-947 m WMSF
375-U1520C_st_main.bin:0-947 m WMSF
375-U1520C_udip_main.bin:0-947 m WMSF
DSI from HRLA/DSI/HLDS/EDTC-B (Repeat pass, recorded open hole)
375-U1520C_ldip_rep.bin: 844.9-946.1 m WMSF
375-U1520C_mono_rep.bin: 844.9-946.1 m WMSF
375-U1520C_st_rep.bin: 844.9-946.1 m WMSF
375-U1520C_udip_rep.bin: 844.9-946.1 m WMSF
The sonic waveform files are depth-matched and depth-shifted to the seafloor (-3531 m) . Please refer to the 'depth_matches' folder in the hole index page for the depth-matching values and to the "DEPTH SHIFT" section in the standard processing notes for further information.
Additional information about the drilling and logging operations can be found in the Operations and Downhole Measurements sections of the expedition report, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Expedition 375.