MV Whitethorn CSU II 72/W2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
| Cruise identifier | CSU II 72/W2 |
| Cruise period | 1972-04-07 — 1972-05-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Greenock, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Oban, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Of the ten planned sites six were intended to investigate the Sea of the Hebrides Mesozoic basin; two lay in the Camasunary basin and a further two were planned to investigate local problems.
Apart from coring solid the holes were also intended to provide further information about later and post-glacial sedimentation. |
| Chief scientist | Paul E Binns (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (2.93 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 11 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 9 Description: physical/chemical analysis of sediments |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: 1 |
| In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Quantity: 5 Description: both wire line and shell and auger methods were imployed in drilling |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 125 |
| Seismic refraction | Quantity: track kilometres = 460 Description: some gifft recorder and sparker traces were made in conj.with the ore pinger seismic profiles |
