Wireline Sonic Waveform Data
IODP logging contractor: USIO/LDEO
Hole: U1352B
Expedition: 317
Location: Canterbury Basin (SW Pacific Ocean)
Latitude: 44° 56.2558' S
Longitude: 172° 1.3630' E
Logging date: December 4-5, 2009
Sea floor depth (driller's): 354.6 m DRF
Sea floor depth (logger's): 355.5 m WRF (APS/HLDS/GPIT/HNGS)
Total penetration: 1185.5 m DRF (830.9 m DSF)
Total core recovered: 614.3 m ( 74 % of cored section)
Oldest sediment recovered: late Pliocene
Lithology: mud, sandy mud, and muddy sand
TOOL USED: DSI (Dipole Sonic Imager)
Remarks about the recording: The DSI was operated with P&S monopole, Upper Dipole, and Lower Dipole modes. The P&S monopole was run in standard frequency mode during Pass 1. Medium frequency modewas used during the downlog and Pass 2. The upper dipole was run in standard frequency mode in all three passes while the lower dipole was run in low frequency mode.
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.
Acoustic data are recorded in DLIS format. Each of the eight waveforms generally consists of 512 samples (256 in cross-dipole mode), each recorded every 10 (monopole P&S) and 40 microsec (all dipole and Stoneley modes), at depth intervals of 15.24 cm (6 inches). The original data in DLIS format is first loaded on a Sun system using GeoFrame software. The packed waveform data files are then converted into ASCII and finally binary format.
Each line is composed of the entire waveform set recorded at each depth, preceded by the depth value. In the general case of 8 receivers with 512 samples per waveform, this corresponds to 1 + 4x512 = 4097 columns. In this hole, the specifications of the files are:Number of columns: 4097
Number of rows: 2649 (downlog)
Number of rows: 2070 (pass 1)
Number of rows: 2413 (pass 2)
The following files have been loaded:
DSI from FMS/DSI/GPIT/HNGS (Downlog, pipe at 437 m WRF)
317-U1352B_mono_d.bin: 393.192-796.7472 m WRF
317-U1352B_ldip_d.bin: 393.192-796.7472 m WRF
317-U1352B_udip_d.bin: 393.192-796.7472 m WRF
DSI from FMS/DSI/GPIT/HNGS (Pass 1, recorded open hole)
317-U1352B_mono_p1.bin: 480.2124-795.528 m WRF
317-U1352B_ldip_p1.bin: m WRF
317-U1352B_udip_p1.bin: 480.2124-795.528 m WRF
DSI from FMS/DSI/GPIT/HNGS (Pass 2, pipe at 436 m WRF)
317-U1352B_mono_p1.bin: 427.9392-795.528 m WRF
317-U1352B_ldip_p1.bin: m WRF
317-U1352B_udip_p1.bin: 427.9392-795.528 m WRF
The sonic waveform files are not depth shifted to a reference run or to the seafloor. For depth shift to the sea floor, please refer to the DEPTH SHIFT section in the standard data processing documentation file.
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 Integrated Drilling Program, Expedition 317.