Heavy Metal Meets Hard Rock: Battling through the Ocean Crust's Hardest Rocks (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International

Heavy Metal Meets Hard Rock: Battling through the Ocean Crust's Hardest Rocks (2 of 3)

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Granoblastic dike samples were recovered in abundance by fishing tools during successive hole remediation operations. Science party members Sumiyo Miyashita and Yoshiko Adashi from Niigata University, Japan, examine large rock samples from Hole 1256D.

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