Sample ID --- 29-39BS Activity ID --- D-1-85-AR Platform --- Discoverer Sampling equipment --- Boxcore Time --- 19852622145000 Latitude --- 71.59833 Longitude --- -166.24500 Water depth --- 46.5 m Penetration depth --- 0.44 m Additional comments --- 3 cores taken at nearly same location Description of the surface --- Surface thickness --- 4 cm Sediment texture --- Clayey mud ooze, yellowish grey. Sedimentary surface features --- Bioturbated Most abundant living fauna --- Amphipods, tunicates, hermit crab in Nucula shell carrying platy bryozoan, polycheate worms (3 kinds). Bivalve shells were oriented --- Concave. Red granite --- No. Description of depositional interval from ? cm to 10 cm --- Color of unit --- Light olive grey. Sediment texture --- Semi-consolidated mud. Sedimentary structures --- Mass - active bioturbation. Bedding features --- None - shells in growth position. Percent of bioturbation --- 100% Paleontologic observation --- Nucula, Macoma (live), shell unfragment (?) in growth position. Description of depositional interval from 11 cm to 30 cm --- Color of unit --- Olive grey. Sediment texture --- Silty consolidated mud. Sedimentary structures --- Bioturbated. Bedding features --- A few scattered shell fragments - no bedding. Percent of bioturbation --- 100% Paleontologic observation --- Diversity of burrows open and closed; few scattered shells; relict and modern burrows Description of depositional interval from 31 cm to 45 cm --- Color of unit --- Olive grey to olive black. Sediment texture --- Silty mud with dropstone (black round quartzite). Sedimentary structures --- Massive with shells in growth position and random dropstones. Bioturbated. Percent of bioturbation --- 100% Paleontologic observation --- Macoma in growth position, shell intact but brittle; Nuculana; Serripes; Half shells concave down. Additional comments--- This unit similar to upper unit. Core recorded by Redden.