CP2 Regional Sea Boundaries: Atlantic North-West Approaches, Rockall Trough and Faeroe/Shetland Channel, Northern North Sea, Scottish Continental Shelf, Offshore 1:250k: Cormorant, Darwin, Fladen, Flett, Foula, Horne, Judd, Lapworth, Miller, Rona, Sando Bank, Sedgwick, Sula Sgeir, Sutherland, Wyville Thomson, Offshore 1:500k: Faroe Shetland Basin, More Basin, North Rockall Basin, SeaVoX Sub-Ocean: NORTH SEA, NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W), NORWEGIAN SEA
This DTI commissioned marine sampling survey took place as 2 legs in July/August/September 2000 in the area north and west of Shetland and Fladen Ground in the North Sea on board th RRS Charles Darwin. The primary purpose being to establish a regional description of the current state of the seabed in the White Zone. The project was led by Southampton Oceanographic Centre, sub-contracted by Geotek Ltd on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry. This cruise was part of a continuing programme of environmental monitoring in these areas carried out as part of the Atlantic Frontier Environmental Network (AFEN) project. The primary sampling tool was a Bowers and Connelly Megacorer but a USNEL-type Boxcorer, Day Grab and 3m gravity corer were also used. A British Geological Survey geologist was onboard to undertake geological descriptions, the data from which is archived at BGS. For any other data from this survey contact National Oceanography Centre. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Reports IR/01/135 and IR/01/079, Commissioned Report CR/01/43 and NOC Cruise Report No. 20 (http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/148424/).
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.
Sampling Survey 2000_CD123: Wyville-Thomson, Ymir Ridge, Faeroe Bank Channel, Tranches 65-67, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Fladen Ground (19/Jul/2000 to 14/Sep/2000)
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Corer: Box, Corer: Multi-Corer, Corer: Sediment Gravity, Grab: Day, Photographic Site