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RRS Discovery D55
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
Cruise identifier | D55 |
Cruise period | 1973-09-08 — 1973-10-19 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Southampton, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Geological reconnaissance with GLORIA and air-gun in the eastern Mediterranean. |
Chief scientist | A H B Stride (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.66 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea) |
Specific | 35-53N;07-28W |
Track charts | (0.14 MB) |
Measurements | |
Meteorology | |
Occasional standard measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
Core - soft bottom | Description: wide bore corer, to investigate the int.structure of large mud bodies in the Gulf of Cadiz |