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Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples

Repository: URI Latitude: 12.47714 to 12.47617
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.59711 to 143.59886
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 2832 to 2748
Sample: TN273-27D Date: 20120113 to 20120113
Device: dredge, rock PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900161

Lava/sediment. Sediment and small volcaniclastics in pipe dredge. Collected from a submarine arc, Mariana arc extension, caldera 1 wall.

Contact URI TN273 data at R2R
1 :    IGSN URI900162  
Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (chemical), Mn/Fe oxide crusts and nodules
Glass and remarks: some samples with fresh glass & Mn/Fe oxide coatings
Comments: Sample TN273-27D-01-01. Rift bottom. manganese coated loosely consolidated sediment ooze with white, brown, and black grains of < 0.5mm sand
2 :    IGSN URI900163  
Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (chemical), Mn/Fe oxide crusts and nodules
Comments: Sample TN273-27D-02-01. Rift bottom. sandy sediment with silt size ooze with some volcanic fragments, glass and manganese oxide
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