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An outcrop of white rock, possibly a carbonate or serpentinite mud flow, cappedby darker polymict (meaning many rock types) and loosely consolidatedformation of what appears to be serpentinite mud with numerous pebble to cobblesized rocks embedded in it

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Description

An outcrop of white rock, possibly a carbonate or serpentinite mud flow, cappedby darker polymict (meaning many rock types) and loosely consolidatedformation of what appears to be serpentinite mud with numerous pebble to cobblesized rocks embedded in it.

Credit

NOAA/OAR/OER, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, Leg 3.

Display Date

20160621T032153Z

Location

Mariana Islands, southern. Hadal Ridge.

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Mariana