Cruise information:
PPTU04WT
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Start
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End
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Cruise dates
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1986-01-01
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1986-01-27
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Cruise ports
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Pago Pago, American Samoa
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Nukualofa, Tonga
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SIO cruise id
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PPTU04WT
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Cruise name
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PAPATUA LEG 4
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Chief scientist
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Hawkins, James W.
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Cruise narrative
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The primary objective of this cruise is to derive a geological model of the process by which seafloor spreading occurs in a back-arc basin- and to test the hypothesis that the opening of the basin has been controlled in part by the mechanism of rift propagation with the direction of propagation running from north to south.
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Cruise ngdc number
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15040163
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Proposal title
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