Cruise inventory
RRS James Cook JC023A
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS James Cook (740H) |
| Cruise identifier | JC023A |
| Cruise period | 2008-03-03 — 2008-03-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Valparaiso, Chile |
| Port of return | Valparaiso, Chile |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Install a seismological network and acquire seismic wide-angle profiles using Ocean bottom receivers and airguns. |
| Chief scientist | Ernst Flueh (IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel) |
| Project | SFB574 |
| Coordinating body | Christian Albreechts Universität Kiel |
| Cruise report |  (38.76 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South East Pacific Ocean (limit 140W) |
| Specific | SE Pacific |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Seismic refraction | Quantity: track kilometres = 900 Description: Seismic profiling with airgun array |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | 35° 0' 0" S 73° 0' 0" W — 106 ocean bottom seismometers deployed and partly (95) recovered. The remaining ones will be recovered in October 2008. |
