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Deployment Details
Survey: - FR200108 [details]
Deployment Type: - Sediment Sampling
Station: VG-03
When: 2001-09-10 04:06 UTC
Where: 19° 28.1' S 170° 33.1' E
Maximum Depth (m): 737
Sediment Sampling details
Device used: Grab - unspecified
Contents | Top (m) | Base (m) |
---|---|---|
Fossiliferous sand with individual grains ~0.5mm. Grains include buff-coloured carbonate tests and dark fragments (glass? Organic?). Matrix was fine clay, but this was <5% of total. | ||
Entire 5cm length of push-core, similar in composition to 143508. | ||
Lump of pumice in washings, ~1cm. Abraded ? so exotic | ||
Washings taken from rectangular red bucket on afterdeck ? presumed to be VG-03 ? Sharks teeth, solitary coral | ||
Similar to 143509 except it contains a 2cm wide shell. |