Magnus Heinason 0554
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Magnus Heinason (26MH) |
| Cruise identifier | 0554 |
| Cruise period | 2005-07-28 — 2005-07-30 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
| Port of return | Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Magneto telluric (MT) experiment to detect potentially oil-bearing sediments underneath basalt cover. The experiment is planned to augment existing MT data recorded in 2003 along the FLAR98-10 seismic profile in the framework of the European-funded SIMBA project. Recording low frequency data at selected stations occupied in previous experiment to delineate the base of the geological structure. The project is funded by the Faeroese SINDRI consortium. 7 seafloor electric and magnetic field receivers to be deployed on the seafloor at 7 stations end of July in a 3 day deployment cruise, to be recovered at the end of September 2005, i.e. should have a bottom time of about 2 months. |
| Chief scientist | Marion Jegen-Kulcsar (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology) |
| NPRC |  (0.03 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
