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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 (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel (East Shore Campus)) |
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. |