Emerald 77/EM/06 Leg 3
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Emerald |
| Cruise identifier | 77/EM/06 Leg 3 |
| Cruise period | 1977-09-02 — 1977-09-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lerwick, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| 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 |
| Chief scientist | John A Chesher (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (5.03 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| 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. |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| 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 = 9 Description: vibrocore |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 54 Description: gravity sediment corer |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 4 Description: rock drill |
