RRS Discovery D219
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D219 |
| Cruise period | 1995-11-28 — 1995-12-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Port of return | Funchal, Portugal |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Study of sediment accumulation. The primary objective was to collect giant piston cores of up to 30m length from the Portuguese margin, Agadir Canyon levees and flanks of Tenerife and western Canary Islands. A secondary objective was to collect PUPPI data on in-situ pore pressures from an area showing potential sediment instability. |
| Chief scientist | Philip P E Weaver (Southampton Oceanography Centre) |
| Project | STEAM |
| Coordinating body | UK NERC |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Portuguese margin, Agadir canyon, Western Canary Islands |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 1 Description: Giant piston core 16.4m long, Station D219/3 |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 1500 Description: 10kHz PES |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 1500 Description: 3.5kHz sub-bottom profiler |
