Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | Emerald |
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Cruise identifier | 77/EM/06 Leg 3 |
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Cruise period | 1977-09-02 — 1977-09-15 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lerwick, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | Part of CSNU regional sampling prog. Shallow sampling of Scottish continental shelf.
Systematic sampling of surface sediments and investigate Quaternary in the East Shetlands Area |
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Chief scientist | John A Chesher (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
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Cruise report | (5.03 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
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Specific | Scottish continental shelf north and east of Scotland: Forties, Peterhead, East Shetlands Area and East Orkney. Samples taken between 55 and 61 N, and 5 W and 2 E. |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Dredge | Quantity: number of stations = 19 Description: cone dredge |
Grab | Quantity: number of hauls = 168 Description: shipek grab |
Core - rock | Quantity: number of cores = 113 Description: gravity rock corer |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 54 Description: gravity sediment corer |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 9 Description: vibrocore |
Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 4 Description: rock drill |