CP2 Regional Sea Boundaries: Minches & Western Scotland, Northern North Sea, Scottish Continental Shelf, Offshore 1:250k: Caithness, Lewis, Moray-Buchan, Orkney, Peterhead, Rona, Sula Sgeir, Sutherland, Offshore 1:500k: North Rockall Basin, SeaVoX Sub-Ocean: INNER SEAS OFF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND, NORTH SEA, NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W)
This British Geological Survey (BGS) regional marine geophysical and sampling survey took place June to July 1972 in Moray Firth and north of Scotland on board the MV Whitethorn. Sea floor data were collected using an echo sounder. Subsurface data were gathered using a pinger, a total of 143km were covered. Seabed samples and cores were collected using a shipek grab, vibrocorer, shell and auger and wireline drilling equipment. Seventeen borehole sites were occupied. These data are archived by BGS. Technical details of the survey are contained in BGS Internal Report WB/72/4.
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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Geophysical and Sampling Survey 1972/WH/4: Moray Firth and north of Scotland (23/06/1972 to 25/07/1972)
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Borehole, Corer: Sediment Gravity, Corer: Vibrocorer, Grab: Shipek