RRS Charles Darwin CD52
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
| Cruise identifier | CD52 |
| Cruise period | 1990-08-25 — 1990-09-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Troon, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | Sedimentary equivalent of dipping refector basalts |
| Chief scientist | Douglas G Masson (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.26 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Rockall Plateau, mainly 20W-25W |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 3000 Description: 10 kHz bathymetry |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 300 Description: single channel seismic reflection, shot with array of 7 airguns |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 3000 Description: 3.5 kHz high resolution profiles |
| Multichannel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 676 Description: multichannel seismic reflection profiles, 7 airguns, 48 channel streamer |
| Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 3000 Description: shipborne gravity |
