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Priority:
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Primary
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Position:
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39°55.00′N, 51°47.00′W
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Water depth (m):
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4940
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Target drilling depth (mbsf):
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400
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Approved maximum penetration (mbsf):
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Request 700; pending EPSP approval
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Survey coverage:
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•Primary line: KNR 179-1, Line 7, SP 204 0520
•Crossing line: KNR 179-1, Line 10, SP 206 0227
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Objective:
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Deep end of depth transect in shallowly buried lower Eocene to Albian drift; deepwater chemistry and history of the Deep Western Boundary Current; Paleogene hyperthermals; PETM. This site has the deepest water depth in the proposed drilling program. Below Eocene CCD.
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Coring program:
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•Hole A: APC/XCB to 400 mbsf with orientation and APCT-3
•Hole B: APC/XCB to 400 mbsf
•Hole C: APC/XCB to 400 mbsf
•See “Drilling strategy” and Tables T1, T2
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Wireline logging program:
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•Hole C: Wireline logging with triple combo and FMS-sonic
•See “Downhole measurements strategy” and Tables T1, T2
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Anticipated lithology:
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Carbonate ooze, hemipelagic clay, shallow-water carbonates
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