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Deployment Details
Survey: - FR200108 [details]
Deployment Type: - Sediment Sampling
Station: VS-05
When: 2001-09-10 15:05 UTC
Where: 19° 12.0' S 170° 01.0' E
Maximum Depth (m): 2980
Sediment Sampling details
Device used: Core - unspecified
| Contents | Top (m) | Base (m) |
|---|---|---|
| 0-20cm: Silty clay with occasional white foraminifera tests. Colour H10YR4/3 Brown | 0 | 0.2 |
| 20-30 cm: Clay with occasional worm burrows 3-5mm diameter | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| 31cm: 0.8cm thick black volcanic sand/ash layer | 0.31 | 0.32 |
| 32-40cm: Brown silty clay with dark mottled bands caused by bioturbation. 8mm diameter burrow | 0.32 | 0.4 |
| 40-50cm: Same as previous, but with 30 mm long burrow | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| 50-60cm: Brown silty clay | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| 60-70cm: Silty clay with occasional white foraminifera tests. Colour H10YR3/3 Dark Brown | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| 70-80cm: Same as previous but with a 4.5cm bn streak, possible worm burrow | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| 80-95cm: Colour change in this interval to brown, less mottled. | 0.8 | 0.95 |
| 95-100cm: Dark brown silty clay, intense mottling | 0.95 | 1 |
| 100-108cm: Brown mottled silty clay, gets progressively darker to 108cm. | 1 | 1.08 |
| 108-117cm: colour and lithology change; H2.5Y4/2 Dark Grayish Brown clay, densely packed and water-poor. Mottled and bioturbated | 1.08 | 1.17 |
| 120-130cm: Brown clay, wet and easily deformed C.F. with 108-117. Moderate to intense mottling | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| 130-143cm: Brown clay, less mottled than 120-130cm, but physical properties essentially the same | 1.3 | 1.43 |
| Working half-core | ||
| Archive half-core | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| 0.8cm thick volcanic sand layer @ 31 cm | ||
| Regularly spaced samples, taken every 10 centimetres, from 10cm to 130cm, respectively | ||
| Headspace sample for Steve Sestak (CH4) from 135 to 140cm depth | ||
| Headspace sample for SS from 0 to 6cm depth |