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: 12.40999 to 12.415
Ship: Thomas G. Thompson Longitude: 143.94112 to 143.94104
Cruise: TN273 Water Depth(m): 4100 to 3730
Sample: TN273-39D Date: 20120117 to 20120117
Device: dredge, rock PI: Katherine Kelly
Storage: room temperature, dry IGSN: URI900318

sediment. Pipe dredge 1/2 full of brown mud. Collected from a forearc rift, SE Mariana forearc rift, scarp south of shallower flat terrain.

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Lithology and Mineralogy: sedimentary (detrital/fragmental or clastic), mudstone (lutite)
Comments: Sample TN273-39D-01-01. Rift bottom. sandy mudstone with friable pebble size siltstone fragments, 70% by volume clay + silt, 30% by volume sand size lithics and biogenics (planktonic foraminfera)
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