Sample ID: PPTU04WT - 34D Sample Type: Dredge


Cruise information: PPTU04WT
Start End
Cruise dates 1986-01-01 1986-01-27
Cruise ports Pago Pago, American Samoa Nukualofa, Tonga

SIO cruise id PPTU04WT
Cruise name PAPATUA LEG 4
Chief scientist Hawkins, James W.
Cruise narrative The primary objective of this cruise is to derive a geological model of the process by which seafloor spreading occurs in a back-arc basin- and to test the hypothesis that the opening of the basin has been controlled in part by the mechanism of rift propagation with the direction of propagation running from north to south.
Cruise ngdc number 15040163
Proposal title



Sample information PPTU04WT
Start End
Date 1986-01-26 1986-01-27
Latitude -18.44 -18.4
Longitude -177.368 -177.4
Water depth (m) 2885 2479

SIO code PPTU04WT-34D
SIO sample number 34D
IGSN number SIO001708
Ship name T. Washington
Navigation type SATNAV-GPS,AUTO LOG GYRO+2D DOPPLER SPD
Sampling tool type dredge
Province basin - small ocean
Crustal age model (mybp) NO_DATA



Sub-sample information
Sub-sample number 1
Siocode PPTU04WT-34D
Depth top (cm)
Depth bottom (cm)
Lithology
Texture
Composition
Geological age
Weight
Rock lithology igneous (extrusive/volcanic) - basalt
Rock min
Weathering weathering - light
Remark some samples exhibit fresh glass
Munsell code
Exhaust code
Comments 175LBS.ALTERED PILLOW BASALT -BASALT -HIGHLY VESICULAR DIABASE -SILTSTONE.