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Cruise Report for NBP 95-07

Other Scientific Data

Several other types of data were collected during the cruise. These included rock and biological samples from dredging, sediment samples from coring, temperature profiles using XBT's (Expendable Bathy-Thermograph profiler modules), and along track gravity and magnetic profiles. During our transit to New Zealand we observed nearly textbook perfect magnetic anomaly symmetry as we crossed the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge spreading center.

During the course of this cruise, we mapped 20,000 thousand square kilometers of sea floor in the primary study areas; the Central Bransfield Basin, the Eastern Bransfield Basin, and the Southwest Scotia Sea. We collected an additional 20,000 square kilometers in transit, some of which had not been previously mapped. We also collected gravity profiles along much of the ship track, tested and collected water samples in 32 ZAPS and 12 Rosette lowerings, recorded approximately 22 hours of single- and multi- channel seismic data, produced 13 water column temperature profiles, collected rock and biota samples during 3 dredges, collected substantial sediment sections from 5 cores, placed 2 current/tide measurement buoys, and took two rolls of ocean bottom photographs.

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