RV Edward Forbes 6/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Edward Forbes (74EF) |
| Cruise identifier | 6/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-04-24 — 1978-05-09 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. Study of fine sediment distribution in the area between Hinkley Point and English and Welsh Lightfloat based on vertical profiles of suspended sediment.
2. Test of new design Partech siltmeter. 3. Laying Barium Sulphate at site of sedimentation experiment in Bridgwater Bay. 4. Gravity coring of settled mud at site of sedimentation experiment and in co-operation with Oxford and Southampton Universities. |
| Chief scientist | Robert Kirby (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Bristol Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 100 Description: continuous vertical turbidity profiles |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 14 |
| Single-beam echosounding | |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Description: siltmeter |
