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Pteropod ooze (Dry)

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Description

Notes: 1 box, 5 tubes

Accession number

NHMUK-M 99

Holding institution

Natural History Museum, London

Date collected

3 July 1873

Area or Water body

Azores Islands
Northeast Atlantic Ocean

Form

FAO

27

Field measurements and observations

Bottom Temperature (°F): 40
Depth (Fathoms): 900
Sediment sample: Pteropod ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.02876
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.02559
Surface Temperature (°F): 70
Temperature at x fathoms: 56.5;53.6;51.6;49.5;47.3;45.2;43.1;41.2;40

Station

76

Gear

Dredge

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