ESOPE - MD 45

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Marion Dufresne
Ship owner IPEV
Dates 01/06/1985 - 01/07/1985
Chief scientist(s) BARBREAU A.

INDETERMINE - UNKNOWN

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INDETERMINEE
DOI 10.17600/85007311
Objective The ESOPE (Ocean Sediment Study by PEnetration) cruise is part of the Subseabed program (defined above). Its main objective was the knowledge of the first tens of meters of unconsolidated sediments characterizing the two following sites: Abyssal plain east of the Great Meteorite; Southern Nares Abyssal Plain to determine their ability to contain radioactivity from the waste that may be buried there.

Sampling operations

Bibliography

Publications

Pearce Timothy J., Jarvis Ian (1995). High-resolution chemostratigraphy of Quaternary distal turbidites: a case study of new methods for the analysis and correlation of barren sequences. Geological Society, London, Special Publications "Non-biostratigraphical Methods of Dating and Correlation", 89(1), 107-143. https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1995.089.01.07


de Lange Gert J., Jarvis Ian, Kuijpers Antoon (1987). Geochemical characteristics and provenance of late Quaternary sediments from the Madeira Abyssal Plain, N Atlantic. Geological Society, London, Special Publications "Geology and Geochemistry ofAbyssalPlains", 31(1), 147-165. https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1987.031.01.12


References of Technical Reports

Kerbrat Rene (1989). Etude lithostratigraphique des carottes prélevées dans la zone d'immersion des déchets radioactifs de l'Atlantique nord est (zone aen). Intérêt pour la prévision des impacts. DERO-GM 89-15. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00431/54304/


Conogan Richard (1985). Étude des Sédiments Océaniques par Pénétration. ESOPE. June/July 1985. Cruise report : Gamma Density.