Description |
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Material: | Rock |
Classification: | Igneous>Volcanic>Mafic |
Field Name: | basalt |
Description: | 60 kg of 3 different types of incredible lavas, all extremely fresh, glassy and vesicular. Type A: 1. Glassy scoria, aphyric (?) with abundant small vesicles. Type B: 2. Vesicular lava with 5 mm vesicles, slighly flattened and hackly glass rinds. Type C: 3. More massive lava with fewer, bigger, more flattened vesicles which mainly occurs as large flat slabs; many have a pronounced flow foliation. |
Age (min): | Not Provided |
Age (max): | Not Provided |
Collection Method: | Dredging>ChainBagDredge |
Collection Method Description: | Not Provided |
Size: | Not Provided |
Geological Age: | Not Provided |
Geological Unit: | Not Provided |
Comment: | Not Provided |
Purpose: | Geological studies |
Geolocation |
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Latitude Start (WGS84): | -3.503 |
Latitude End: | Not Provided |
Longitude Start (WGS84): | 149.898 |
Longitude End: | Not Provided |
Northing (m) (UTM NAD83): | Not Provided |
Easting (m) (UTM NAD83): | Not Provided |
Zone: | Not Provided |
Vertical Datum: | Not Provided |
Elevation Start: | -2165 meters |
Elevation End: | Not Provided |
Nav Type: | Not Provided |
Physiographic Feature: | W Pacific Ocean |
Name Of Physiographic Feature: | Manus Basin |
Location Description: | Not Provided |
Locality: | Not Provided |
Locality Description: | Not Provided |
Country: | Not Provided |
State/Province: | Not Provided |
County: | Not Provided |
City: | Not Provided |
Collection |
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Field Program/Cruise: | MW8518 |
Platform Type: | Not Provided |
Platform Name: | Moana Wave |
Platform Description: | Not Provided |
Launch Type: | Not Provided |
Launch Platform Name: | Not Provided |
Launch ID: | Not Provided |
Collector/Chief Scientist: | Not Provided |
Collector/Chief Scientist Detail: | Not Provided |
Collection Start Date: | 1985-12-31 |
Collection End Date: | Not Provided |
Curation |
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Current Archive: | SOEST |
Current Archive Contact Details: | Not Provided |
Original Archive: | Not Provided |
Original Archive Contact Details: | Not Provided |
Related Samples |
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Parents: | No Parents | Siblings: | No Siblings |
Children: | No Children |