Emerald 77/EM/06 Leg 2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Emerald |
| Cruise identifier | 77/EM/06 Leg 2 |
| Cruise period | 1977-08-23 — 1977-09-02 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Part of CSNU regional sampling prog. Shallow sampling of Scottish continental shelf.
Vibrocoring, gravity coring, grabbing and dredging in Forties SE. |
| Chief scientist | Daniel Evans (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (1.65 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Scottish continental shelf north and east of Scotland: Forties, Peterhead, East Shetlands Area and East Orkney. Samples taken between 55 and 61 N, and 5 W and 2 E. |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Description: sampling |
| Core - soft bottom | Description: sampling |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 16 Description: electric vibrocorer |
| Gravity measurements |
