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Event details
Voyage: | IN2019_V04 [details] |
When: | 2019-08-11 13:53:36 UTC |
Log: | Geology_Rocks_in2019_v04 |
Equipment: | Not specified |
Position: | Latitude: -20.266 Longitude: 155.6694 Position from underway logging |
Sample number: | in2019_v04_D07_011 |
Dredge: | D07 |
Sample Number Assigned: | Yes |
Sample photographed (include scale and sample number): | Yes |
Number of photos: | 2 |
Sample sawn: | Yes |
Sticker: | yes |
Colour: | grey-light | red | brown | yellow |
Composition: | mafic |
Phenocryst mineralogy: | feldspar | olivine[iddingsite] |
Phenocryst abundance (%): | 10 |
Phenocryst size range (mm): | 0.5-3 |
Groundmass: | microcrystaline |
Features: | volcanic brecciated |
Vesicle abundance: | <10% |
Vesicle Filling (%): | 70 |
Vesicle fill: | clay |
Alteration: | Fresh | Mn crust | altered |
Grain size: | sand (<2 mm) | pebble (2-64 mm) | cobble (>64 mm) |
Grain shape: | angular |
Sorting: | poor |
Components: | volcanic vesicular |
Cement: | calcite |
Sample bagged: | yes |
Bucket number: | 15 |
Rock name: | Mafic Volcanic Breccia |
Comments: | sedimentary volcanic breccia in limestone/clay matrix, Mn crust 1-10 mm, Basaltic clasts within limestone/clay matrix > unable to tell if clast or matrix supported. small volcaniclastic sand sized grains making up matrix. thick Mn crust adn thick alteration rims ~2cm. Fresh core with olivines and plagioclase phenocrysts. refer to the diagram |