Emerald 77/EM/06 Leg 1
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Emerald |
| Cruise identifier | 77/EM/06 Leg 1 |
| Cruise period | 1977-08-11 — 1977-08-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Leith, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Part of CSNU regional sampling prog. Shallow sampling of Scottish continental shelf. 157 routine sample stations and 11 vibrocore stations occupied.
Leg 1 - Vibrocoring, gravity coring and cone dredge sampling in Forties 1:250,000 sheet area and some sampling of Peterhead NE 1:100,000. |
| Chief scientist | Rodney Owens (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (4.43 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 = 79 Description: cone dredge |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 84 Description: Shipek grab |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: day grab |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 23 Description: electric vibrocorer |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 67 Description: sediment corer |
