BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RV Pelagia (64PE) cruise PE300
Introduction
This report collates information from the BODC cruise inventory and oceanographic databases. It presents
- Cruise Inventory Information
- A summary of BODC data holdings for the cruise from the
- References - including cruise tracks and cruise reports
Cruise Inventory Information
Long name | RV Pelagia (64PE) cruise PE300 |
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Short name | PE300 |
Objectives and Narrative | The primary purpose of Cruise 64PE300 was to map the previously undocumented inner continental shelf of the Indus in order understand how sediment moves from the river to the deep sea Indus submarine fan. |
Ship | RV Pelagia |
Departure Port | Muscat, Oman |
Departure Date | 2008-12-10 |
Arrival Port | Muscat, Oman |
Arrival Date | 2009-01-07 |
Principal Scientist(s) | Peter Clift (University of Aberdeen Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology) |
Responsible Organisation | University of Aberdeen Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology |
Associated Project(s) | Indus Delta and Shelf Survey |
IHB Sea Areas Visited | Arabian Sea |
Marsden Squares Visited | 102 |
Work Area Description | Indus Fan |
Unable to lookup cruise bounds at this time | |
Work Area Bounding Polygon | |
Southern Limit | unknown |
Northern Limit | unknown |
Western Limit | unknown |
Eastern Limit | unknown |
Cruise Inventory Datasets
Physical oceanography | |
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CTD stations |
Quantity:
number of stations =
31
Description: CTD casts made using a Seabird SBE 9/11 system with a transmissometer, optical backscatter, and fluorimeter mounted on a stainless steel frame with 24 10-litre bottles, although no water sampling was conducted during this expedition. |
Geology and geophysics | |
Core - soft bottom |
Quantity:
number of stations =
31
Description: Piston, gravity, box and multicoring systems. Samples from the multicorer were taken from tubes measuring 8 x 60 and 4 x 100 mm. Subsamples from the box corer were also taken in 4 x 100 mm plastic tubes. Piston and gravity cores were 110 mm in diameter and were split on the ship, described and stored at 4°C in freezers in the hold prior to shipment to NOC, Southampton. |
Geophysical measurements made at depth |
Quantity:
track kilometres =
1540
Description: Seismic surveys using Boomer and Sparker systems (hydrophone coupled to a Geomatrics Strataview R60 seismograph) |
Multi-beam echosounding | Description: Bathymetric mapping performed using a multibeam Kongsberg EM302 Swath Mapper using a hull-mounted transducer. These data was recorded and processed shipboard using SIS Konsberg software. |
Multichannel seismic reflection | Description: Edgetech SB-512i "Chirp" seismic reflection system optimized for imaging in the 20-200m sub-seafloor range. |
Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations
No information on datasets is currently available
Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise
National Oceanographic Database
No data currently held for this cruise in the BODC National Oceanographic Database
Project Database
No data currently held for this cruise in the BODC Project Database