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Repository: URI Latitude: 12.89499 to 12.89518
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.56732 to 143.57123
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 2915 to 2883
Sample: TN273-04D Date: 20111228 to 20111228
Device: dredge, rock PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900044
Province: ridge crest

<1kg of lava. Several large pieces of glassy lava flow. Collected from a spreading center ridge axis, Mariana trough, back-arc spreading ridge; steep scarp east of ridge axis.

Contact URI TN273 data at R2R
1 :    IGSN URI900045  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, pillow
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-01. Glassy rind; pahoehoe and pillow lavas
2 :    IGSN URI900046  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, pillow
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-02. Glassy rind; pahoehoe and pillow lavas
3 :    IGSN URI900047  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, pillow
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-03. Glassy rind; pahoehoe and pillow lavas
4 :    IGSN URI900048  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, pillow
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-04. Glassy rind; pahoehoe and pillow lavas
5 :    IGSN URI900049  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, pillow
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-05. Glassy rind; pahoehoe and pillow lavas
6 :    IGSN URI900050  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, pillow
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-06. Glassy rind; pahoehoe and pillow lavas
7 :    IGSN URI900051  
Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-04D-01-07. Bulk glass fragments
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