Argo, trying to save leaking sediment from poor catcher. After the shooting was done we found the outcrop again and sampled it with a piston corer. The sample slumped out of the core barrel and we tried to catch it in a bucket. Next we dredged and obtained basement rock, a fossil pelagic ooze about 15 million years old.

• 1967

• Jones, Alan Churchill, 1927-

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Henry William Menard Papers, 1938-1986

• Nova Expedition

• Argo (Ship)

• Drill cores

• image

• Alan Jones

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