MD 141/ALIENOR cruise report : first leg Lisbon-Cardiff

The ALIENOR cruise aimed to collect a number of samples from the Noth Atlantic from Lisbon (Portugal) to El Ferrol (Spain) via Cardiff (Wales), for paleoclimatic evolution studies. The R.V. Marion Dufresne is capable of recovering sediment cores up to 60m in length in water depths down to 5000m. The SEQUOIA programme was part of the first leg of this research expedition to the NE Atlantic that departed Lisbon on the 6th June 2004 and arrived in Cardiff on the 17th June 2004. The first leg of the ALIENOR cruise followed the Iberian margin, the Armorique Mount in the central Bay of Biscay, the western Irish Margin, the Barra Fan, Rosemary Bank and the Scottish Loch Sunart