A total of ninetyone dredge stations were carried out during the 1994 and 1996 cruises, of which seventysix were successful, the others being empty or lost. The recovered rocks represent a broad spectrum of oceanic crust and the upper mantle samples, including phyric and aphyric basalts, dolerites, fine and coarse grained gabbros, more or less serpentinized peridotites, tectonized basalts, basaltic breccias and glacial erratics (intrusive and metamorphic rocks) from the Antarctic continent. Fresh glasses were recovered from spreading axial zones. Locations, depths and a brief description of the dredged material is presented in the Appendix (Tables 2, 3. 5, 6).
Data analysis from S18 cruise (Tables 8 and 9 by SIMONOV1996) are reported in Appendix 7.2.
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