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Coring at Sunset

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Sunset Core

4 cores tonight. Here’s the recovery of the first, with the sun setting behind Catalina Island. The sun disappeared behind the island just as we began to extrude the cores. And here I thought I’d get to work in the daylight for once.   Also, a Carnival Cruise ship passed by about an hour ago.… Continue reading →

Coring in the Deep

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Tonight we cored in deep water off the California shelf. The unique bathymetry of the California Borderlands means you don’t get a standard shelf-slope profile as you head offshore, but if you go west far enough, you finally get past all the Borderland basins and find a true shelf break, past which the water is… Continue reading →

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