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Box Core Sample Log Sheet
Station No. PS64/263-1 Date 9 June 03
Box Core No. 7 Time of sample 0014
(UTC)
SAMS Station No. 978 Depth (m) 921
Position 51º 26.130N
11º 43.970W
Operator
O Pfannkucke
A Grehan
Sample Description
Core target, ‘off Galway Mound’.
Dropstones between 1 and 30cm, rounded pebbles/lag. Live sea urchin, hydroids, ?sponge, 7 octocoral
colonies (JMR note, this could refer to the 7 hydrocoral Pliobrothus colonies visible in the photograph),
brachiopods, shell debris, small dead Lophelia. Coarse sandy sediment, brown in colour.
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Depth core penetration 37-44cm
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Depth from surface of core Sieve mesh size Surface area core sieved
0-5cm 1, 0.5, 0.25mm Whole cored, with subsample of
0.25mm fraction
5-10cm
not recorded
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Sample removed
No. individuals / No. subcores
To whom?
3 small dropstones and
Pliobrothus
3 stones and Pliobrothus J Hall-Spencer
Pliobrothus
2 colonies preserved in
ethanol
JM Roberts
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