Criscilla 1/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Criscilla |
| Cruise identifier | 1/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-11-30 — 1978-12-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Montrose, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Montrose, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The principal objective of the cruise was to acquire a series of multichannel seismic, gravity and magentic profiles between the Iceland-Faroes Ridge and the north western margin of the Rockall Plateau. These profiles were designed to cross the continent-ocean boundary or transition and provide a basis for subsequent studies of the conjugate East Greenland margin. In the northern part of the area, several of the profiles were located to traverse the series of channels marking the paths of outflow water from the Faeroe Bank channel. A secondary objective was to obtain geophysical profiles across the Wyville-Thompson Ridge and to deploy disposable sonobuoys for seismic velocity analysis over suitable geological structure. |
| Chief scientist | Peter R Miles (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.22 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: 72 |
| Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 683.388 |
| Magnetic measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 803.768 |
