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Underway and Geophysics data collected in the Cayman Trough

This dataset consists of geophysical and underway measurements collected on FS Meteor Cruise M115. Swath bathymetry data were collected using a ship-fitted Kongsberg Simrad EM122 multi-beam deep ocean echo sounder, with data collected during the cruise along specific profiles with the aim of filling gaps in existing coverage acquired by RRS James Cook cruise JC044. A total of 170 ocean-bottom seismograph deployments were made at various stations and depths throughout the duration of the cruise, of which 55 were National Environmental Research Council funded. Gravity data were acquired port-to-port using a Micro-G/LaCoste-Romberg air-sea gravimeter (S-40) mounted on a gyro-stabilised platform, which ran throughout the duration of the cruise. Magnetic and meteorological data were also collected. The cruise ran from 01 April to 28 April 2015 from Kingston, Jamaica to Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, collecting data within the Cayman Trough. This cruise formed the field component of NERC Discovery Science project 'Crustal accretion and transform margin evolution at ultraslow spreading rates', which ran between March 2015 and June 2018. Its aims were: 1) to study the structure and lithology of the crust at the Mt Dent oceanic core complex (OCC) on the Mid‐Cayman Spreading Center (MCSC) and determine the relationship between this and the adjacent volcanic domain that also hosts hydrothermal vents; 2) to investigate how the crust changes as it cools and ages as it spreads away from the ridge axis. The Discovery Science project was composed of Standard Grant reference NE/K011162/1. The project was funded from 23 March 2015 to 30 June 2018, and was led by Professor Christine Peirce (Durham University, Earth Sciences). Data have been received by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), archived, and are available on request from the BODC Enquiries team.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048CaymanTrough_Peirce_project_data
Date (Publication)
2019-02-13
Date (Creation)
2023-12-06
Date (Revision)
2023-12-08
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6878
Owner
  Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
Science Labs , Durham , Durham , DH1 3LE , United Kingdom
+44 (0)191 334 2300
https://www.dur.ac.uk/earth.sciences/
Originator
  Durham University, Department of Earth Sciences - Unknown ( Unknown )
Science Labs , Durham , Durham , DH1 3LE , United Kingdom
+44 (0)191 334 2300
https://www.dur.ac.uk/earth.sciences/
Custodian
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded As needed
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
  • unknown
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Seismic refraction
  • Bathymetry and Elevation
  • Magnetics
  • Gravity
  • Seismic reflection
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
  • Hydrography
  • Elevation
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
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Text, table
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Geoscientific information
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Geographic identifier
Caribbean Sea

Date (Revision)
2024-12-11

Begin date
2015-03-23
End date
2018-06-30
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
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  • Delimited ()

  • Text or Plaintext ()

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dataset Dataset

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.
Pass
Yes
Statement
This dataset was created by scientists for ‘Crustal accretion and transform margin evolution at ultraslow spreading rates’ project, which ran from 2015 to 2018, following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves.Instrument(s) used to collect data: multi-beam echosounders; gravimeters; seismometers.
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c64327401ea4508db40947ca29f499bf XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-09T13:32:25
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version
3.1.2
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Polly Hadžiabdić ( Head of the BODC Requests Team )
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
 
 

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