National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), NOAA Satellite and Information Service US National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences
Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples

Repository: SIO Latitude: -42.3833 to -42.3867
Ship: Melville Longitude: -83.5783 to -83.5867
Cruise: PANORAMA (PANR04MV) Water Depth(m): 3143 to 3137
Sample: PANR04MV-008D Date: 19980204 to 19980204
Device: dredge, rock PI: Karsten, J; Klein, E.
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: SIO000708
Province: rise or ridge, aseismic ocean

Contact SIO Sample photograph 1 at NGDC PANR04MV data at MGDS PANR04MV data at SIO Explorer
1 :    bulk weight = 150 kg
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), sheet flow basalt
Weathering / Metamorphism: weathering - moderate
Glass and remarks: some samples exhibit fresh glass
Comments: ~150kg basalt pillows & massive flow; glassy with thin Mn coat; surface oxidized; some interior alteration to clay. Segment S-5 South Chile Ridge Ridge.
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