Emerald 77/EM/06 Leg 4
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Emerald |
| Cruise identifier | 77/EM/06 Leg 4 |
| Cruise period | 1977-09-16 — 1977-09-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lerwick, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Part of CSNU regional sampling prog. Shallow sampling of Scottish continental shelf.
Completion of survey of eastern side of Shetland sheet, collect shell sand samples in East Orkney and completing sediment samples on Forties and Peterhead sheets |
| Chief scientist | Nigel G T Fannin (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (3.15 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 | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of hauls = 176 Description: shipek grab |
| Core - rock | Quantity: number of cores = 76 Description: rock corer |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 17 Description: vibrocorer |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 65 |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 3 Description: drills |
