MD 137 / KERGUEPLAC-1

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Marion Dufresne
Ship owner TAAF
Dates 11/02/2004 - 15/03/2004
Chief scientist(s) ROEST Walter ORCID

GEO-OCEAN - UMR 6538

Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, Univ. Bretagne Sud

Place Nicolas Copernic

29280 Plouzané

https://www.geo-ocean.fr/
Project manager ROEST Walter
DOI 10.17600/4200040
Objective A mission of the national Extraplac program aiming to draw up the technical file to support the claim for legal extension of France's continental shelf, in the framework of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea. Acquisition of geophysical data required to determine the foot of the slope of the Kerguelen shelf and detailed mapping of the 2,500 m isobath in key areas. The Kergueplac-1 mission focused on the western area of the Kerguelen islands shelf.

Published data

Sauter Daniel, Cannat Mathilde (2022). Gridded bathymetric data along the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge between the Gallieni TF and the Rodrigues triple Junction. https://doi.org/10.17882/90631


Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Sloan Heather, Sauter Daniel, Goff John A., Cannat Mathilde (2012). Abyssal hill characterization at the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13(1), Q0AE06-. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GC003850 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00266/37682/


References of Technical Reports

(2004) KERGUEPLAC-1.