RRS Challenger CH113A
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
| Cruise identifier | CH113A |
| Cruise period | 1994-07-29 — 1994-08-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Mallaig, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The objective of the cruise was to study the crustal structure of the Faroe-Iceland Ridge, the trail of the Iceland plume on the Eurasian plate as the North Atlantic opened. Part of planned two ship exercise with MV GEKO ECHO.
Charter cruise. |
| Chief scientist | Tim A Minshull (University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences) |
| Cruise report |  (0.60 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 7 Description: XBTs. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: Simrad EA500 echosounder |
| Single channel seismic reflection |
