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Ship:	Moana Wave
Cruise:	MW8805
Sample:	MW8805 STA56 RD56
Device:	dredge, rock
Latitude:	13.863
Longitude:	163.614
Water Depth(m):	2550
Date:	19880516
IGSN:	IEUHM006G
Storage:	room temperature, dry

Central Pacific Ocean, Marshall Islands. Chain bag dredge. Field description: basalt
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Lithology/Mineralogy:	igneous (extrusive/volcanic), basalt
Comments:	2 buckets: one 4x10x15 cm Mn crust was recovered. RD56-1 - 3 pieces basalt, grey with some rusted olivines, some unaltered. (10 cm, 15 cm, 20 cm~diameter) RD56-2 - one large piece (30x20x20 cm), three small pieces (10 cm dia.) extremely hard foraminiferal limestone. Borings are filled with a softer foraminiferal limestone and with basalt fragments. One small piece contains a 5 cm basalt clast with 2 cm of Mn crust. One small piece is extremely altered and heavily bored, containing only a small, hard core. RD56-3 - Three small pieces of breccia (each~5-10 cm dia.) with vesicular basalt clasts as well as soe apparently glassy fragments. All are very altered and crumbling.