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RV Pelagia PE300

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)RV Pelagia (64PE)
Cruise identifierPE300
Cruise period2008-12-10 — 2009-01-07
StatusCompleted
Port of departureMuscat, Oman
Port of returnMuscat, Oman
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesThe primary purpose of Cruise 64PE300 was to map the previously undocumented inner continental shelf of the Indus in order understand how sediment moves from the river to the deep sea Indus submarine fan.
Chief scientistPeter Clift (University of Aberdeen Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology)
ProjectIndus Delta and Shelf Survey
Cruise reportRV Pelagia PE300 cruise report pe300.pdf (1.44 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralArabian Sea
SpecificIndus Fan
Track chartsRV Pelagia PE300 cruise track — pe300trk.pdf (0.05 MB) 
Measurements 
Physical oceanography 
CTD stationsQuantity: number of stations = 31
Description: CTD casts made using a Seabird SBE 9/11 system with a transmissometer, optical backscatter, and fluorimeter mounted on a stainless steel frame with 24 10-litre bottles, although no water sampling was conducted during this expedition.
Geology and geophysics 
Core - soft bottomQuantity: number of stations = 31
Description: Piston, gravity, box and multicoring systems. Samples from the multicorer were taken from tubes measuring 8 x 60 and 4 x 100 mm. Subsamples from the box corer were also taken in 4 x 100 mm plastic tubes. Piston and gravity cores were 110 mm in diameter and were split on the ship, described and stored at 4°C in freezers in the hold prior to shipment to NOC, Southampton.
Geophysical measurements made at depthQuantity: track kilometres = 1540
Description: Seismic surveys using Boomer and Sparker systems (hydrophone coupled to a Geomatrics Strataview R60 seismograph)
Multi-beam echosoundingDescription: Bathymetric mapping performed using a multibeam Kongsberg EM302 Swath Mapper using a hull-mounted transducer. These data was recorded and processed shipboard using SIS Konsberg software.
Multichannel seismic reflectionDescription: Edgetech SB-512i "Chirp" seismic reflection system optimized for imaging in the 20-200m sub-seafloor range.