Sample ID: NOVA04HO - 64D 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 -23.0333 -23.0333
Longitude 169.3833 169.3833
Water depth (m) 1143 987

SIO code NOVA04HO-64D
SIO sample number 64D
IGSN number SIO000226
Ship name Horizon
Navigation type CELESTIAL-MANUAL ENTRY GYRO SPEED
Sampling tool type dredge
Province seamount or seamount province
Crustal age model (mybp) NO_DATA



Sub-sample information
Sub-sample number 1
Siocode NOVA04HO-64D
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Lithology
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Composition
Geological age
Weight 91.91
Rock lithology sedimentary (detrital/fragmental or clastic) - marl
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Comments Western upper slope of seamount. Mn-coated sedimentary rocks - including whitish foraminiferal marl to buff-brown coquina of shell debris.