Scheduled Cruises in 2004

Summary of a cruise on margins research (NL.041)

Location and cruise identifier :    NW Atlantic ; 64PE229

Research ship :   Pelagia

Sails :    15th August 2004 from ; Cadiz, SPAIN

Docks :    15th September 2004 to ; Cadiz, SPAIN

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Principal Scientist/Investigator :   Dr. Henk de Haas

Laboratory :   Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

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Scientific objectives :   

MOUNDFORCE  :  The major objective of this project is to establish the geological, biological, oceanographical and chemical forcing conditions of carbonate mound formation and to test the hypothesis of a possible linkage between (hydrocarbon related) cold seeps and the development of carbonate mounds, cold water benthic communities and authigenic carbonate formation.