RRS Shackleton S10/79
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Shackleton (74SF) |
| Cruise identifier | S10/79 |
| Cruise period | 1979-10-31 — 1979-11-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To obtain magnetic, gravity and precision depth records for the northern Red Sea In the direction of seafloor speading N44/224 |
| Chief scientist | Ronald W Girdler (Newcastle University School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Red Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Birds | |
| Mammals and reptiles | |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 1 |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 9750 |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 185 |
| Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 9750 |
| Magnetic measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 9750 |
