Sperus 16/79
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Sperus (74TJ) |
| Cruise identifier | 16/79 |
| Cruise period | 1979-06-08 — 1979-06-10 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Cruise 16/79 was run at the start of leg 3 with the aim of providing shallow seismic control over a number of sites due to be drilled later in 1979. |
| Chief scientist | Robin A Floyd (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (11.17 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
| Specific | English Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: 74 |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of hauls = 74 Description: format 0 is seismic analogue paper record |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: 10 Description: format 0 is seismic analogue paper record |
| Seismic refraction | Quantity: track kilometres = 137.048 Description: sparker.74nm boomer.Format 0 is seismic analogue paper record |
| Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 137.048 |
