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RRS Charles Darwin CD52
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
Cruise identifier | CD52 |
Cruise period | 1990-08-25 — 1990-09-13 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Troon, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
Objectives | Sedimentary equivalent of dipping refector basalts |
Chief scientist | Douglas G Masson (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.26 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | Rockall Plateau, mainly 20W-25W |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 3000 Description: 10 kHz bathymetry |
Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 300 Description: single channel seismic reflection, shot with array of 7 airguns |
Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 3000 Description: 3.5 kHz high resolution profiles |
Multichannel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 676 Description: multichannel seismic reflection profiles, 7 airguns, 48 channel streamer |
Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 3000 Description: shipborne gravity |