Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | Sperus (74TJ) |
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Cruise identifier | 16/79 |
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Cruise period | 1979-06-08 — 1979-06-10 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | Cruise 16/79 was run at the start of leg 3 with the aim of providing shallow seismic control over a number of sites due to be drilled later in 1979. |
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Chief scientist | Robin A Floyd (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
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Cruise report | (11.17 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
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Specific | English Channel |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: 74 |
Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of hauls = 74 Description: format 0 is seismic analogue paper record |
Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: 10 Description: format 0 is seismic analogue paper record |
Seismic refraction | Quantity: track kilometres = 137.048 Description: sparker.74nm boomer.Format 0 is seismic analogue paper record |
Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 137.048 |