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Magnetics, bathymetry and gravity data from the eastern Caribbean region (1968-1972)

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General  
Data holding centreUniversity of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences
CountryUnited Kingdom  United Kingdom
Time periodVarious periods in the late 1960s and early 1970s (1968, 1969, 1971, 1972)
OngoingNo
Geographical area

Eastern Caribbean region

Observations 
Parameters

Gravity; Magnetics; Bathymetry and Elevation

Instruments

Single-beam echosounders; multi-beam echosounders; gravimeters; magnetometers

Description 
Summary

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Durham University with the Royal Navy, and the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories of NOAA, Miami, conducted an extensive marine geophysical survey programme over the eastern margin of the Caribbean Sea (10° N - 17° N, 57° W - 65° W) as part of the Cooperative Investigation of the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (CICAR). Bathymetry, magnetics (total field and magnetic anomaly) and gravity (free air and Bouguer anomaly) data were collected. Bathymetry was monitored mostly by conventional sonic transducers (with the exception of the 1971-1972 NOAA lines, most of which were done with a narrow-beam transducer), the total magnetic field by proton precession magnetometers, and the gravity by Graf- Askania or LaCoste-Romberg sea gravity meters.

OriginatorsUniversity of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences
References

Kearey, P., Peter, G. and Westbrook, G.K. (1975) Geophysical Maps of the eastern Caribbean., Journal of the Geological Society, 131(3): 311-321.

Availability 
OrganisationUniversity of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences
AvailabilityBy negotiation
ContactHead of Department
Address

University of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences
Science Laboratories South Road
Durham

DH1 3LE
United Kingdom

Telephone+44 191 3742520
Administration 
Collating centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
Local identifier1005002
Global identifier245
Last revised2009-12-01