Sample ID: NOVA04HO - 63D Sample Type: Dredge


Cruise information: NOVA04HO
Start End
Cruise dates 1967-07-13 1967-08-07
Cruise ports Suva, Fiji Noumea,New Caledonia

SIO cruise id NOVA04HO
Cruise name NOVA LEG 4(HO)
Chief scientist Menard, Henry W.
Cruise narrative To explore the southwest Pacific Ocean and to investigate the drift of continents and the expansion of the seafloor in Melanesia which seems to be part continent and part ocean basin.
Cruise ngdc number NA
Proposal title To study the origins and geologic history of continents and ocean basins



Sample information NOVA04HO
Start End
Date 1967-08-06 1967-08-06
Latitude -23.4833 -23.4833
Longitude 169.6 169.6
Water depth (m) 1125 1097

SIO code NOVA04HO-63D
SIO sample number 63D
IGSN number SIO000225
Ship name Horizon
Navigation type CELESTIAL-MANUAL ENTRY GYRO SPEED
Sampling tool type dredge
Province ridge crest
Crustal age model (mybp) NO_DATA



Sub-sample information
Sub-sample number 1
Siocode NOVA04HO-63D
Depth top (cm)
Depth bottom (cm)
Lithology
Texture
Composition
Geological age
Weight 36.36
Rock lithology sediments (unconsolidated) - sand - calcareous (forams/pteropods)
Rock min
Weathering
Remark
Munsell code
Exhaust code
Comments W. slope and summit of ridge. Firm calc.sandstone with Mn coating - friable shell debris with Mn coating - foram./ostracode/bryozoan marl and dense ls.