BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

SECEGSA Cruise (29GD20041024) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2004, This campaign, carried out between October 29 and November 14, 2004, forms part of the collaboration agreement between the SNED / SECEG companies and the Spanish Center for Marine Technologies (CETMAR) of Vigo, using the oceanographic vessel "García del Cid "property of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations. The areas of the Spanish and Moroccan continental shelves of the Camarinal Threshold area have been covered, up to a depth of 100 meters (approximately 100 km2). During this campaign two chains of current meters were anchored for the registration of marine currents and 1,000 km of 'last generation' side scan sonar profiles (Klein model 3000 recorder), of 700 kilometers of reflection seismic profiles have been made (Géopulse) and magnetometry and 86 samples taken from surface rocks of the seabed with gravity samples. This campaign has confirmed the results obtained in previous investigations in the Spanish and Moroccan continental shelves and in the threshold layout. The lithological samples consist mainly of flysch rocks, similar to those exposed on both sides of the strait. The recent deposits (Quaternary bioclastic sands) appear sporadically with a maximum thickness of 10 meters on the Moroccan platform and 30 meters on the Spanish platform where they occupy a larger area