RRS Shackleton S3/80, leg 4
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RRS Shackleton (74SF) |
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Cruise identifier | S3/80, leg 4 |
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Cruise period | 1980-06-06 — 1980-06-17 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | To deliniate the area of Jurrasic rocks and other major boundaries to enable them to be tied into previous surveys made for a cross-Channel power cable from Dungeness to Equihen. The survey also formed a basis for the Dungness- Boulonge sheet of the IGS 1:250 000 map series and the data used to help determine a bottom sampling programme to be carried out by the Institue of Geological Sciences (IGS), Marine Geology Unit later in the season. |
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Chief scientist | Michael C Tully (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
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Cruise report | (0.35 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 1109 |
Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: track kilometres = 587 Description: "UDI"dual channel side scan system;556nm Transit Sonar |
Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: 394 Description: format 0:Seismic analogue paper record |
Seismic refraction | Quantity: track kilometres = 1030 Description: Sparker;317nm Airgun |
Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 1109 |
Magnetic measurements | Quantity: 317 |