Scheduled Cruises in 2003

Summary of a recent cruise on margins research (UK.033)

Location :   NW Indian Ocean

Research ship :   Charles Darwin Cruise 149

Sailed :   Seychelles, 18 Jul 2003

Docked :   Seychelles, 01 Aug 2003

Laboratory :   Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.

PI :   Bramley Murton

Contact :   bjm@soc.soton.ac.uk

Scientific objectives :   To spend up to 2 days dredging seamounts on the rifted margin offshore the N Seychelles margin to complement geophysical work carried out during Cruise 144. This cruise collected ca. 50 kg of basalts from a small seamount at 3 Deg 09 Min S, 56 Deg 11 Min E.