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Event details
| Voyage: | IN2019_V04 [details] |
| When: | 2019-08-28 22:58:26 UTC |
| Log: | Geology_Rocks_in2019_v04 |
| Equipment: | Not specified |
| Position: | Latitude: -17.2072 Longitude: 159.1939 Position from underway logging |
| Sample number: | in2019_v04_D48_018 |
| Dredge: | D48 |
| Sample Number Assigned: | Yes |
| Sample photographed (include scale and sample number): | Yes |
| Number of photos: | 3 |
| Sample sawn: | Yes |
| Sticker: | yes |
| Colour: | black | brown |
| Composition: | mafic |
| Alteration: | Mn crust | altered |
| Phenocryst abundance (%): | 10 |
| Phenocryst size range (mm): | 1-3 |
| Groundmass: | microcrystaline |
| Features: | volcanic brecciated |
| Vesicle abundance: | 30-50% |
| Vesicle Filling (%): | 80 |
| Vesicle fill: | Calcite, clay |
| Grain size: | pebble (2-64 mm) |
| Grain shape: | mixture |
| Sorting: | moderate |
| Cement: | calcite |
| Sample bagged: | yes |
| Bucket number: | 84 |
| Rock name: | Matrix supported highly vesicular altered basalt clast breccia |
| Comments: | Mn-crust 5 - 25 mm, basalt clasts show rounded to subangular shape, cement fizzes, sometimes clay cement? |