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Accession number

YPM HSI 040899

Holding institution

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Date collected

6 September 1875

Area or Water body

Off East of Christmas Island, Line Islands
Eastern Central Pacific Ocean

Form

Microscope slide

FAO

77

Field measurements and observations

Bottom Temperature (°F): 35
Depth (Fathoms): 2425
Sediment sample: Globigerina ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.02793
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.02383
Surface Temperature (°F): 78.7
Temperature at x fathoms: 77;76.2;76.2;76.2;76.2;76.2;74.5;68.8;63.2;59.4;57;56;55.3;54.7;54.1;53.4;52.8;52.2;51.6;51;46.5;42.9;40.7;39.5;38.7;38.2;37.7;37.2;36.7;36.3;36.1;35.9;35.7

Taxonomic groups

Porifera
Animalia

Station

271

Gear

Trawl

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