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: 12.12005 to 12.12138
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.82498 to 143.82629
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 5216 to 5385
Sample: TN273-16D Date: 20120109 to 20120109
Device: dredge, rock PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900123
Province: ridge crest

Brown, fine grained sediment. Collected from a forearc rift, SE Mariana forearc rift, very deep in forearc, NW-SE mullion fabric.

Contact URI TN273 data at R2R
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Lithology and Mineralogy: igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt, vesicular (>10% vesicles)
Comments: Sample TN273-16D-01-01. Rift bottom. brown, fine grained sediment
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