Cruise data report, R/V Atlantis II 93 Leg 7

The R/V ATLANTIS II Cruise 93 Leg 7 left Port Louis, Mauritius, 8 April 1976 on a 29 day geophysical and geological survey in the Mascarene and Somali Basins in the Western Indian Ocean. Table 1 lists the members of the scientific party. Seventeen piston cores were successfully recovered in the Mascarene Basin, Amirante Trench and Somali Basin regions. Table 2 summarizes these coring stations. Single channel continuous seismic profiles were made on 2920 km of ship's track in the Somali Basin. Echo soundings, total geomagnetic field and gravity field data were collected throughout the entire leg. The R/V ATLANTIS II arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, on 6 May 1976. For analysis of the data collected during this cruise see Bunce and Molnar (1977) and Johnson and Bunce (1977). We present here summary charts of the underway data collected during this cruise.Prepared for the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-74-C0262, NR083-004 and the Oceanographic Section, National Science Foundation, through Grant OCE-75-21522