SAMPLING STRATEGY


Sampling guidelines and policy are available at the following Web site URL: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/policy.html. The Sample Allocation Committee (co-chiefs, staff scientist, and ODP curator onshore and curatorial representative on board ship) will work with the entire scientific party to formulate a formal leg-specific sampling plan for shipboard and postcruise sampling. Modification of the strategy during the leg must be approved by the co-chiefs, staff scientist, and curatorial representative on board ship.

The minimum permanent archive will be the standard archive half of each core. All sample frequencies and sizes must be justified on a scientific basis and will depend on core recovery, the full spectrum of other requests, and the cruise objectives. Some redundancy of measurement is unavoidable, but minimizing the duplication of measurements among the shipboard party and identified shore-based collaborators will be a factor in evaluating sample requests.

At each Leg 190 site, the APC/XCB hole will only overlap the RCB hole by ~10 m. Therefore, there will only be one copy of the section available for core description and sampling. In some critical intervals (e.g., faults, décollement, veins, etc.) there may be considerable demand for samples from a limited amount of recovered core material. These intervals may require special handling, a higher sampling density, or reduced sample size. A coordinated sampling plan may be required before critical intervals are sampled.


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