we have split therest of the piston core from the basin we were in last night.
we have a good view of the entire deposit we think is likely the 2004 turbidite.
it is over 1 meter thick. this is the thickest deposit, by four times, that we
have seen in all the cores recovered on this cruise. below that turbidite are
perhaps over a dozen thinner turbidite sequences. many of them have thin mud
turbidite 'pre-cursors?' and then nice buoma (person who typified bedforms of
turbidites) b,c,d, and mud tails. the ripples of buoma c are particularly
beautiful! also, lucky for us, there are hemipelagic deposits between most of
these turbidites. residing in these hemipalagites are forams. the age control we
were looking for. core 96PC will be a benchmark of this study.
most people are in a good mood, as we are getting close to the end. i hope
these4 last few days last a long time, but time is running really fast (back to
sans sleep mode).
the ocean is still blue. the moon is waning. sunrise this morning was
spectacular.
later gator, jater
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