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: 12.5038 to 12.50276
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.32545 to 143.32667
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 3050 to 2872
Sample: TN273-14D Date: 20111230 to 20111230
Device: dredge, rock PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900121
Province: ridge crest

No recovery, small chips in burlap. Collected from a submarine arc, Mariana arc extension, west side of submarine volcano; Eastern most of submarine volcanic edifice south of spreading center.

Contact URI TN273 data at R2R
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Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (chemical), Mn/Fe oxide crusts and nodules
Comments: Sample TN273-14D-01-01. Rift bottom. small basaltic rock fragments
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