Corer: Sediment Gravity, Corer: Vibrocorer
CP2 Regional Sea Boundaries: Atlantic North-West Approaches, Rockall Trough and Faeroe/Shetland Channel, Minches & Western Scotland, Scottish Continental Shelf, Offshore 1:250k: Flett, Foula, Judd, Lewis, Rona, Sando Bank, Wyville Thomson, Offshore 1:500k: Faroe Shetland Basin, North Rockall Basin, SeaVoX Sub-Ocean: INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND, NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W)
This British Geological Survey (BGS) sampling survey took place in January 1987 to the West of the Shetland Islands on board the Kommandor Subsea. Seabed cores were collected using Vibrocorer and Gravity corer. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report WB/87/7.
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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Sampling Survey 1987/1: West of Shetland (10/Jan/1987 to 18/01/87)
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced British Geological Survey materials "Contains British Geological Survey materials ©UKRI [year]"