TO: Tom Davies

FM: Jay Miller

 

JA Daily Science Report for Expedition 304, 26 November 2004.

 

LOCATION:  Site U1309 (prospectus site AMFW-01A)

Latitude: 30° 10.1086'N     Longitude: 42° 07.1115'W    
Water depth: 1642 mbsl

 

SCIENCE UPDATE: Cores 304-U1309B-1R to 4R (0-29.5 mbsf, 26% recovery) returned a couple of meters of soupy, light tan calcareous ooze from the top of the massif. Underneath the mud we recovered fine to medium grained, plagioclase-phyric diabase.