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Voyage report for SS2012V06 Eastern Coral Sea Tectonics (ECOSAT), R/V Southern Surveyor, October-November 2012
Citation
Seton, M and Williams, S and Mortimer, N and Meffre, S and Micklethwaite, S, Voyage report for SS2012V06 Eastern Coral Sea Tectonics (ECOSAT), R/V Southern Surveyor, October-November 2012, GNS Science Report 2016/49, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, pp. 1-97. (2016) [Government or Industry Research]
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Abstract
ECOSAT (Eastern Coral Sea Tectonics) was a 26 day Cairns to Brisbane voyage conducted
on the R/V Southern Surveyor between 26th October and 20th November, 2012. The area
surveyed was the eastern Coral Sea, including the undersea features of the Louisiade Plateau,
Rennell Island Ridge, Santa Cruz Basin, West Torres Plateau, South Rennell Trough,
D’Entrecasteaux Basin, Loyalty Ridge, northern Lord Howe Rise and Fairway Ridge. Activities
consisted of rock recovery by dredging at 14 sites and collection of underway bathymetry,
gravity and magnetic data. An estimated 1046 kg of igneous and sedimentary rock was
dredged off the seabed of which 281 kg was retained for further study and archiving. When
dating of rocks is completed and interpretations of bathymetric, gravity and magnetic and rock
data are made, the results of the SS2012V06 survey will add to our knowledge of the tectonic
evolution of the eastern Coral Sea region.
Item Details
Item Type: | Government or Industry Research |
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Keywords: | Coral Sea, New Caldonia, Rennell Island |
Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
Research Group: | Geology |
Research Field: | Structural geology and tectonics |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences |
UTAS Author: | Meffre, S (Professor Sebastien Meffre) |
ID Code: | 113212 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | CODES ARC |
Deposited On: | 2016-12-15 |
Last Modified: | 2017-01-20 |
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