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Main Authors:	van Andel, Tjeerd H, Heath, G Ross, Bennett, Richard H, Bukry, David, Charleston, Santiago, Cronan, David S, Dinkelman, Menno G, Kaneps, Ansis G, Rodolfo, Kelvin S, Yeats, Robert S
Format:	Dataset Open Access
Language:	en
Published:	PANGAEA 1973
Subjects:	16-156; Comment; Date/Time of event; Deep Sea Drilling Project; Deposit type; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Description; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation; Elevation of event; Glomar Challenger; Latitude of event; Leg16; Longitude of event; NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database; NOAA-MMS; Position; Quantity of deposit; Sample code/label; Sample ID; Sediment type; Shape; Size; South Pacific/RIDGE; Substrate type
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.865361
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This site was accidentally spudded on a small basement pinnacle and was abandoned when hard rock was reached within a few meters from the surface. The section penetrated consisted of coarse winnowed calcareous sand over thin chalk ooze resting on a hard crust of ferromanganese oxide presumably covering basalt.