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RRS Discovery D154_3

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)RRS Discovery (74E3)
Cruise identifierD154_3
Cruise period1985-02-04 — 1985-03-09
StatusCompleted
Port of departurePunta Arenas, Chile
Port of returnGrytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesThe two main aims of the cruise were to study ridge crest-trench collisions in the Scotia and Bellingshausen seas and to investigate he controls on Weddell sea sedimentation. The cruise included a study of the three youngest collision zones off the Antarctic Peninsula and a reconnaissance of the youngest collision zone in the contrasting intra-oceanic environment directly south off the South Sandwich arc.
Objectives for this leg focussed on a study of sediments in the Weddell Sea. Techniques used were 3.5 kHz seismic surveying, box coring and piston coring. Success was limited by bad weather and equipment problems, but samples were obtained. Seismic surveying of the South Orkney block was undertaken when the weather was too bad for coring. Routine XBT deployments for IOS continued throughout this leg of the cruise.
Chief scientistPeter F Barker (University of Birmingham Department of Geological Sciences)
ProjectMarine Geophysics Cruise - Scotia and Bellingshausen Seas
Coordinating bodyBAS
Cruise reportRRS Discovery D154_3 cruise report d154.pdf (3.42 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralSouth Atlantic Ocean
SpecificSouthern Ocean
Track chartsRRS Discovery D154_3 cruise track — d154track.pdf (0.05 MB) 
Measurements 
Physical oceanography 
BathythermographDescription: XBT
Geology and geophysics 
Core - soft bottom
Single channel seismic reflection