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RRS Charles Darwin CD69
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
Cruise identifier | CD69 |
Cruise period | 1992-06-11 — 1992-07-05 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Greenock, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | To collect a seismic expanding spread profile. Two ship exercise with Challenger 93/92, also a land party on Orkney |
Chief scientist | Penny J Barton (University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | N UK continental shelf, NE Atlantic, N Sea |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
Multi-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 1852 Description: bathymetry along experiment line (7 35'W - 1 35'E, at 58 46'N) |
Seismic refraction | Quantity: track kilometres = 370.4 Description: seismic refraction (explosive source) |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Geology and geophysics | |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 7° 10' 59" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 6° 47' 59" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 5° 15' 0" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 7° 34' 59" W — Moored digital seabed hydrophone packages, depl.16-18 Jun, rec.26 Jun - 1 Jul |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 4° 12' 0" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 1° 34' 59" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 2° 7' 0" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 2° 37' 0" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 6° 16' 59" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 5° 46' 0" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 4° 43' 0" W — |
In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | 58° 46' 0" N 3° 40' 59" W — |