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: URI Latitude: 13.2387
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.71442
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 2971
Sample: TN273-02W Date: 20111224
Device: core PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900002

Wax core; wax-bearing weight dropped to the seafloor. Spreading center ridge axis. Mariana trough, southern-most spreading segment

Contact URI TN273 data at R2R
1 :    IGSN URI900003  
Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (pyroclastic), tuff, vitric (glass clasts)
Comments: Sample TN273-02W-01-01. Glass fragments washed from sediment
2 :    IGSN URI900004  
Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (pyroclastic), tuff, vitric (glass clasts)
Comments: Sample TN273-02W-02-01. Brown, clay-rich ediment with foraminifera
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