Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
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Cruise identifier | 3/79 |
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Cruise period | 1979-05-07 — 1979-07-08 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lerwick, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | CSU = CSU II Edinburgh
Leg 2:
The primary objective of this leg of the cruise was to sample the superficial sediments of the Halibut Sheet (Fig 1). The Orkney sheet was also a priority area and parts of the Shetland and Fair Isles sheets were areas that could be sampled during bad weather. The equipment on board was a vibrocorer system, gravity corers, and shipek grab, and a shipek grab camera. |
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Chief scientist | C E Deegan (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
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Cruise report | (7.58 MB) (6.66 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
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Specific | North Inland Sea W. Scotland, North Atlantic |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 22 |
Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 656 |
Core - rock | Quantity: 165 |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 542 |