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Ship:	Moana Wave
Cruise:	MW8805
Sample:	MW8805 STA67 RD67
Device:	dredge, rock
Latitude:	15.482
Longitude:	155.019
Water Depth(m):	1730
Date:	19880526
IGSN:	IEUHM006P
Storage:	room temperature, dry
Province:	seamount or seamount province

Central Pacific Ocean, Magellan Seamounts. Chain bag dredge. Field description: basalt
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Lithology/Mineralogy:	igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt
Comments:	4 buckets: one piece of RD67-1 is a brown basalt, highly vesicular in places with large voids (2-4 cm) filled with planktic foram ls. and volcaniclastic debris. RD67-1 - 8 buckets grey basalt with small phenocrysts of olivine and/or pyroxene (?). Most are highly fractured with pink ooze along fractures. A red/brown alteration zone. Surrounds a small grey core in most pieces. 6 buckets discarded. RD67-2 - 2 buckets of a variety of breccias. Some have large grey basalt clasts with small amounts of planktic foram/volcanic matrix, one has a 3 cm bed of planktic foram ls. sandwiched between 2cm thick microbrecca layers, one has rounded to subrounded pebbles in a planktic foram matrix.