Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
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Cruise identifier | 8/79 |
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Cruise period | 1979-09-17 — 1979-10-08 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | The areas selected for work by the m.v. Whitethorn using the unmanned submersible Conbus, and the objectives in each area were as follows:
i) Devils's Hole - inspection, traverses and sediment sampling
ii) Forties Area - pockmark investigation including traverses and sediment sampling
iii) West Shetland and Foula area - solid rock drilling
iv) Continental Slope and north west of Orknet and Shetland - slope traverses, sediment samling and coral investigation.
V) Rosemary Bank - solid rock drilling
The location of the proposed dives sites are shown in fig.1, and the co-ordinates of the sites in Appendix II. Due to bad weather throughout the cruise, work on objectives 1 and 2 was foregone in order to obtain shelter. |
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Chief scientist | John A Chesher (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
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Cruise report | (5.84 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 Sea, Inland Sea W. Scotland, North Atlantic |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 203 |
Core - rock | Quantity: 49 |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 159 |
Bottom photography | Quantity: 7 |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Quantity: 9 Description: sampling by submersible |