Sample ID --- 29-40BS
     Activity ID --- D-1-85-AR
     Platform --- Discoverer
     Sampling equipment --- Boxcore
     Time --- 19852622207000
     Latitude --- 71.59667
     Longitude ---  -166.24667
     Water depth --- 46.5 m
     Penetration depth --- 0.535 m
     Additional comments --- Second of 3 cores at this station.

     Description of the surface ---
          Surface thickness --- 8.5 cm
          Sediment texture --- Silty mud, lots of quartz, yellowish grey color.
          Sedimentary surface features --- Burrows, worms, tubes.
          Most abundant living fauna --- Brittle star, sea cucumbers, Nucula P., common
               Mycoma, Serripes.
          Bivalve shells were oriented concave --- None.
          Red granite --- No.
  
     Description of depositional interval from 8.5 cm to 15 cm ---
          Color of unit --- Light olive grey to olive grey.
          Sediment texture --- Semi-consolidated silty mud with black quartzite dropstone.
          Sedimentary structures --- Massive.
          Bedding features --- None - dropstone and shells randomly placed.
          Percent of bioturbation --- 100%
          Paleontologic observation --- Live worm, Astarte, Nucula, Nalica shells.

     Description of depositional interval from 16 cm to 44 cm ---
          Color of unit --- Olive grey to olive black.
          Sediment texture --- Consolidate.
          Sedimentary structures --- Massive.
          Bedding features --- None
          Percent of bioturbation --- 100%
          Paleontologic observation --- Live worm to 33.5 cm, tube anemone, vertical,
               horizontal and U-shaped burrows;  Golfinga burrow.

     Description of depositional interval from 44 cm to 53.5 cm ---
          Color of unit --- Olive black.
          Sediment texture --- Consolidated silty mud.
          Sedimentary structures --- Massive.
          Bedding features --- None - dropstone and shells randomly distributed.
          Percent of bioturbation --- 100%
          Paleontologic observation --- Macoma in growth position;  shells scattered  
               throughout, many open and closed burrows.
          Additional comments --- Core described by M. Colgan.  Core recorded by G.
               Redden.