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  • Experiment Name: Characterization of the Oriental Basin, Venezuela
  • PI: Schmitz, Caseillo, Levander, Zelt
  • Email: mschmitz@internet.ve
  • Sponsor: CONICIT
  • Inst: FUNVISIS, Simon Bolivar University, Rice, Rice
  • Start_Date: 6/15/2001
  • End_Date: 7/31/2001
  • Lat: 8.5
  • Long: -116.0
  • Texan: 180
  • Descr: The goal of the project is the determination of the sedimentary thickness and characterization of the basement in the Oriental Basin, Venezuela. We consider two profiles of 70 km lenght, each using explosive charges of 200 and 100 kg. The profile will be covered with a total of 70 stations, 10 Orions from FUNVISSIS and 60 TEXAN walkmen.


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