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RRS Charles Darwin CD87
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
Cruise identifier | CD87 |
Cruise period | 1994-06-16 — 1994-07-20 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | A gravity magnetic and multi-beam bathymetric survey of Reykjanes Ridge |
Chief scientist | Roger C Searle (University of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences) |
Cruise report | (3.05 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | North east Atlantic |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of deployments = 31 Description: Daily XBT deployments |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Velocity dips. |
Biology and fisheries | |
Gear research | Quantity: number of deployments = 3 Description: 3 claibration deployments od EM12. |
Geology and geophysics | |
Bottom photography | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: CAM77 deployment over Cambridge seismic line. |
Magnetic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Magnetometer deployments |