Description of W.H.O.I. rock dredge samples : volume 1

Abstract

This report is Volume I in the series of reports entitled, "DESCRIPTIONS OF W.H.O.I. ROCK DREDGE SAMPLES". This series represents a major effort to catalog and prepare initial descriptions for all rock dredge samples in the W.H.O.I. Sea Floor Samples Collection, and to distribute this information throughout the scientific community. Volume I contains sample descriptions from approximately 382 dredging stations executed during the period 1960 through 1977. It also presents a digitized listing of all dredge station data for the entire W.H.O.I. Dredge Collection through 1980. The data are sorted by Marsden Square and can serve as a regional index for all rock descriptions included in Volumes I-III.