Sample ID --- 60-79BS Activity ID --- D-1-85-AR Platform --- Discoverer Sampling equipment --- Boxcore Time --- 19852761002000 Description of location --- Gravel shoal. Latitude --- 70.61833 Longitude --- -165.83500 Water depth --- 44.5 m Penetration depth --- 31 m Additional comments --- TV station Description of the surface --- Surface thickness --- 8 Sediment texture --- Silty muddy ooze. Sedimentary surface features --- Gastropod traces. Most abundant living fauna --- Amphipods, Tachyrhynchus, soft tube worms. Paleontologic observation --- None. Bivalve shells were orientated concave --- 100% Red granite --- No. Description of depositional interval from 8 cm to 15 cm --- Color of unit --- Olive gray. Sediment texture --- Organic rich clayey muddy gravel. Clasts are rounded with recent fractures. Sedimentary structures --- Massive. Bedding features --- None. Percent of bioturbation --- 100% Paleontologic observation --- Pectin, brachiopods, Macoma, Yoldia, Astarte, hydrozoa, Costazia, Boreotrophon. Description of depositional interval from 15 cm to 26 cm --- Color of unit --- Olive gray. Sediment texture --- Clay mud moderately consolidated. Scattered sands. Sedimentary structures --- Massive. Bedding features --- None. Percent of bioturbation --- 100% Paleontologic observation --- Worm burrows. Description of depositional interval from 26 cm to 31 cm --- Color of unit --- Olive gray. Sediment texture --- Sandy organic rich clayey muddy gravels. Sedimentary structures --- Massive. Bedding features --- Overall mud-gravel-mud-gravel. Percent of bioturbation --- 100% Paleontologic observation --- Branching bryozoa, barnacles fragments and bases. Many shell fragments. Additional comments --- Core described by M. Colgan. Core recorded by M. Colgan.