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Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, RI 02882
Contact: Dr. Steven Carey
401/874-6209
401/874-6811 (FAX)
scarey@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu
Data Center Staff Size: 3
Type of Repository: Public - Academic
Catalog and Index Type: paper, database
Data Delivery Media: paper, mail out
Quantity of Holdings:
Center Services Provided: core/sample services
Geographic Areas of Holdings, by type and media:
- Rock and Mineral Specimens
- Eastern Onshore, Atlantic Offshore, Pacific Onshore, International
- Sediment Core
- Eastern Onshore, Atlantic Offshore, Pacific Offshore, International
Comments: The Marine Geological Samples Laboratory of the
Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) serves as the central repository
for dredge rock, deep-sea core, and land-based geological samples
collected by the Marine Geology and Geophysics Group at GSO. The
main purpose of the facility is to assure that geological samples
are properly stored, described, preserved, and available for use
by qualified investigators from both inside and outside the institution.
The facility currently maintains a collection of 1,548 deep-sea
piston and gravity cores stored under refrigerated conditions, 751
dredge-rock samples, 624 coastal grab samples and approximately
90,000 samples from the reference collections of present and former
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