Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1976, Page 2

10 Seismic Refraction Measurements around the Faeroe ísla.nds
Fig 1. Survey of tbe shot lines of the North Atlantic Seismic Project
(NASP 1972).
which were based on land, but two ships (the British ship
»Miranda«, and the Soviet ship »Mikhail Lomonosov«) occu-
pied a number of stations at sea.
All shots were fired in the sea by slowly burning fuse, and
most of the relevant loads consisted of 300 lbs. or 600 lbs. of
Geophex, and all shots consisted of one single load. The shots
were fired along the lines shown on fig. 1, and the spacing was
around 10 km for most of the shots, which are relevant to the
Faeroe Islands. It can be added that only shots on the lines
A, B and C gave usable signals on the Faeroe Islands.
The stations F1 .. . F6 on the Faeroe Islands were organized
by the University of Aarhus (Denmark), but equipment and
personnel came from a number of Danish and West German