Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | Emerald |
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Cruise identifier | 77/EM/06 Leg 5 |
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Cruise period | 1977-09-27 — 1977-10-10 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Leith, 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.
Complete other routine samples, then move on to unsampled sheets. |
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Chief scientist | Richard Holmes (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
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Cruise report | (1.40 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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Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 157 |
Core - rock | Quantity: number of stations = 157 |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 157 |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 11 Description: vibrocore |
Gravity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 157 |