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: 12.31689 to 12.31694
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.95408 to 143.95402
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 4765 to 4599
Sample: TN273-38D Date: 20120117 to 20120117
Device: dredge, rock PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900316

Sediment in pipe dredge. Collected from a forearc rift, SE Mariana forearc rift, wall of deep basin.

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Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (detrital/fragmental or clastic), mudstone (lutite)
Comments: Sample TN273-38D-01-01. Rift bottom. sandy mud with fresh angular sand grains of gabbro/peridotite with source serpentinite present; no biogenic material except for agglutimated foraminifera
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