Moray Firth IV Aug 67 Irish Sea Survey
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Moray Firth IV (74MF) |
| Cruise identifier | Aug 67 Irish Sea Survey |
| Cruise period | 1967-08-06 — 1967-09-01 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Geophysical survey to provide data on:
(a) Localities where solid rocks crop out on the sea bed or where superficial deposits are thin; test localities to be sampled by coring devices (b) Thickness, structural and lithological variations in the superficial, unconsolidated deposits (c) Structure in solid rock formations |
| Chief scientist | Michael C Tully (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh), R McQuillin (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (10.65 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | North Irish Sea between Cumbria/Lancashire and Isle of Man |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 122 Description: Shipek grab, |
| Core - rock | Quantity: 6 Description: Rock drills. |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 49 Description: Gravity cores |
