This collection relates to the second of two single channel reflection seismic surveys that were conducted at Flathead Lake. The first survey, which is described in another collection on the University of Montana (UM) ScholarWorks platform, was conducted in 1970. The second survey was conducted in the summer of 1980. The principal investigator for the 1980 survey was Anthony Qamar, then faulty geophysicist at UM. Qamar directed Jerry Kogan’s thesis research that used data from the survey. The thesis is available through another UM ScholarWorks site. The books in this collection provide details of the survey that are not in Kogan’s thesis, a track line map generated in a modern geographical information system (GIS) that is in a larger format than the corresponding map in the thesis, available scans of the field recordings, and suggestions for how to convert the scanned images to digital traces for viewing in a modern 3D seismic interpretation workstation or processing the traces with modern software.
This collection is new as of January 2026, and it is under construction. The curator hopes to have core elements built out by March 1, 2026.
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A. Introduction to the Archive of the 1980 Flathead Lake Seismic Survey
Robert W. Lankston
This attempts to provide details of the hardware used during the 1980 seismic survey on Flathead Lake beyond the references in the master's thesis that described the survey and the initial use of the data.
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B. 1980 Flathead Lake Seismic Survey Track Map
Robert W. Lankston
The narrative in this book describes the process of generating a new track map of the 1980 seismic survey in modern GIS space. The map is also available.
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D. The Michael Hofmann Seismic Sections -Part A
Michael H. Hofmann
A description of the process for constructing the full-length seismic sections from sets of scans of the paper field records made in the early 2000s by then PhD candidate Michael Hofmann. Images of the full seismic sections follow the narrative by Robert W. Lankston. This ... Read More
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E. The Michael Hofmann Seismic Sections - Part B
Michael H. Hofmann
This book contains a set Images of the full seismic sections that were generated by Michael Hofmann in the early 2000s. Links to the images follow the narrative by Robert W. Lankston. This set of images relates to those lines that are not labeled on ... Read More