Corer: Rock Gravity, Corer: Sediment Gravity, Corer: Vibrocorer, Drill, Grab: Shipek
Sampling Survey 1983/2: Regional Mapping: Northern & Central North Sea; English Channel (14/Apr/1983 to 23/Aug/1983)
CP2 Regional Sea Boundaries: Eastern Channel, Northern North Sea, Scottish Continental Shelf, Southern North Sea, Western Channel & Celtic Sea, Offshore 1:250k: Bergen Bank, Bosies Bank, Bressay Bank, Caithness, Dogger, Dungeness-Boulogne, Fair Isle, Farne, Fladen, Guernsey, Halibut Bank, Indefatigable, Orkney, Shetland, Silver Well, Spurn, Swallow Hole, Thames Estuary, Wight, Offshore 1:500k: Faroe Shetland Basin, SeaVoX Sub-Ocean: DOVER STRAIT, ENGLISH CHANNEL, NORTH SEA, NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W)
This BGS regional marine sampling survey (comprised of eight legs) took place from April to August 1983 in Northern & Central North Sea and English Channel on board the MV Whitethorn. Seabed samples and cores were collected using Shipek grab, Gravity corer, Vibrocorer and Rockdrill. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report WB/83/7-9, 11, 18, 22, 23.
For more detailed information on the acquisition equipment and data collection techniques, operational standards, data processing methods and quality control procedures used on this survey see the Report of Survey/Cruise Report and associated documentation where available. The information available may vary depending on the age of the survey. Data are checked and loaded to the BGS Coastal and Marine data management system following BGS marine data management procedures.
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