RRS John Murray JM6/69
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS John Murray (74MJ) |
| Cruise identifier | JM6/69 |
| Cruise period | 1969-06-23 — 1969-08-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Gibraltar, Gibraltar |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To examine the fine structure of temperature and salinity and the transport of sediment to and over an abyssal plain. The temperature and salinity study could not take place due to lack of equipment and so a limited study of the movement of intermediate waters took it's place. |
| Chief scientist | Henry Charnock (University of Southampton Department of Oceanography) |
| Cruise report |  (0.27 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) |
| Specific | Tyrrhenian Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: 34 T surface |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 5 Description: parach.drogue |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | |
| Phosphate | |
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| Nitrate | |
| Nitrite | |
| Total - N | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - rock | |
| Seismic refraction | Description: sparker |
| Gravity measurements |
