Event label	Optional label	Method/Device	Abbreviation	O2A Registry URI	Date/Time	Latitude	Longitude	Elevation	Date/Time end	Latitude end	Longitude end	Elevation end	Comment
MD96-2088x	MD962088	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-07-10T00:00:00	-22.75000	14.20000	-105					1. Coring no release, more weight, then 2. coring. Second approach: Calypso lost, piston cable broken.
MD96-2089x	MD962089x	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-08-10T00:00:00	-23.26667	12.80333	-1010					Calypso lost at 18.2 t pull tension.
MD96-2075	MD962075	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-23T00:00:00	-26.99500	37.98500	-4649					Top soft brown mud, no forams, CC: gray mud, at 26 m depth a lot of water coming out. Flow in structures, down to 16 mbsf often 20 to 50cm intervals with brown soft sediment sucked in. Preliminary biostrat/color => older than stage 15
MD96-2076G	MD962076G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-25T00:00:00	-33.16000	32.21167	-3618					Drift sediments, brownish sandy mud, Forams
MD96-2076	MD962076	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-25T00:00:00	-33.16167	32.20833	-3619					Top soft brown mud, forams, CC: gray stiff mud, preliminary biostratigraphy/color => older than stage 12.
MD96-2077G	MD962077G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-25T00:00:00	-33.15333	31.25667	-3781					Top soft brown mud, Forams, CC: gray mud
MD96-2077	MD962077	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-25T00:00:00	-33.16833	31.24667	-3781					Top soft brown mud, Forams, CC: gray mud (Nannofossil foraminiferal ooze), core liner disrupted at 2405 cm.
MD96-2078G	MD962078G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-26T00:00:00	-32.49167	29.92833	-2997					Top soft brown carbonate ooze, Forams, CC: gray calcareous mud. Sunshine,heavy waves and strong current CAL skipped.
MD96-2079G	MD962079G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-27T00:00:00	-35.31667	28.50833	-4380					Top soft brown calcereous mud, CC: gray calcareous mud.
MD96-2079	MD962079	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-27T00:00:00	-39.31667	28.49667	-4382					Top soft brown mud, few forams, CC: gray calcareous mud, very soft intervals down to 8 mbsf. 20 to 50 cm thicksandy turbidites intercalated in the mud with heavy flow in between turbidites.
MD96-2080	MD962080, ABS	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-29T00:00:00	-36.26667	19.47500	-2488					Top 5 m very soft, brownish grey Foram Nanno Ooze, CC: greenish grey Foram Nanno Ooze, First section bottom 5 cm lost during cutting.
MD96-2080G	MD962080G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-29T00:00:00	-36.26667	19.46333	-2495					No sediment in the corer, only some mud along the tube outside.
MD96-2081G	MD962081G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-30T00:00:00	-35.34833	17.40833	-3171					Top 5cm brown Foram Nanno Ooze, below greenish grey Nanno Ooze.
MD96-2081	MD962081	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-30T00:00:00	-26.99500	37.98500	-4649					Top grey Foram Nanno Ooze, CC: stiff gray Nanno Ooze, below 28.00 m core distorted, 30 cm in two plastic bags (28.69+30cm). Also wrong depths. Starting with segment 14 which is from 1909 and goes only to 1945 (instead 1950). Thus all following segments mu
MD96-2082BC	MD962082BC	Box corer	BC		1996-09-30T00:00:00	-34.78667	17.73667	-1872					greenish grey to brownish grey Foraminiferal Nanno Ooze, 1 surface sample, 12x A+B syringes 1, 4, 8,....44 cm.
MD96-2082G	MD962082G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-09-30T00:00:00	-34.79000	17.73500	-1887					greenish gray Nanno Ooze, Forams. Probably touched the sea floor and fallen down.
MD96-2082	MD962082	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-09-30T00:00:00	-34.78667	17.73667	-1871					Top: greenish grey Nanno ooze, forams. CC: green mud, only few forams, H2S odor. 43cm cutted with a saw. 27 sections, section 4 flow in 3.50-4.30m, voids in section 6 (6.00-7.50m). A+B series at every 5 cm, Radiolaria samples every meter (51, 151...).
MD96-2083	MD962083	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-01T00:00:00	-33.50000	17.00000	-954					Whole core greenish grey Foram-bearing Nannofossil Ooze, looks well from the top to the bottom. No foraminiferal sand layers.
MD96-2084G	MD962084G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-03T00:00:00	-31.74333	15.51667	-1410					Pale olive grey Foram-bearing Nannofossil Ooze.
MD96-2084	MD962084	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-03T00:00:00	-31.74167	15.51667	-1408					Pale olive grey Foram-bearing Nannofossil Ooze. Partly very soft, great loss at the top during core handling on deck. The upper part probably contains mud debris flows or piston inflow.
MD96-2085G	MD962085G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-04T00:00:00	-29.69833	12.93667	-3000					new with trigger weight, not released. Sediment light grey to pale yellow Foraminiferal Nannofossil Ooze.
MD96-2085	MD962085	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-04T00:00:00	-29.70000	12.93500	-3001					Foraminifera Nannofossil Ooze, core distorted, sections 10, 17 and 18 broken, 80 cm of the sediment between 2385- 2460 cm lost on the deck.
MD96-2086G	MD962086G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-05T00:00:00	-25.80667	12.13500	-3598					Top pale olive gray Nanno Ooze, Forams, changing to whitish or greenish gray Ooze at the bottom, intercalated with dark green layers.
MD96-2086	MD962086	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-05T00:00:00	-25.81333	12.12833	-3606					Top pale olive gray Foram-bearing Nanno Ooze. CC: stiff olive mud, H2S odor (liner cutted with a saw).
MD96-2098x	MD962098x	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-05T00:00:00	-25.60000	12.63000	-2909					Core stucking in the sediment, pull tension over 19 tons. Tried to recover for 8 hours then lost when reaching a tension of 26.5 tons during the final pull.
MD96-2087BC	MD962087BC	Box corer	BC		1996-10-06T00:00:00	-25.60000	13.38000	-1029					Olive green diatomaceous mud, very soft at the upper 50 cm. A+B-Series 1, 4,...24,...30, 34, ... 42. 1 surface sample.
MD96-2087G	MD962087G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-06T00:00:00	-25.60000	13.38000	-1028					Olive green diatomaceous mud, very soft at the top.
MD96-2087	MD962087	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-06T00:00:00	-25.60000	13.38000	-1028					Dark olive green Siliceous Nannofossil Ooze , very soft at the top, stiff in the CC. Gas expansion, few cm of sediments lost during cutting at 150, 300 cm core depth, strong H2S odor. Gas expansion pressed out the sediment from the liner => extra 30 cm be
MD96-2088G	MD962088G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-07T00:00:00	-22.75000	14.20000	-105					Diatomaceous mud, Top very soft, dark olive green. Surface disturbed.
MD96-2088BC	MD962088BC	Box corer	BC		1996-10-07T00:00:00	-22.75000	14.20000	-102					Very soft diatomaceous mud, dark olive green to black. Sampling from aside very difficult, sediment flowing out. 2 surface samples, 12 A+B Series: 1, 4, 8,... 38!, ..,44, 3 Tubes Archive.
MD96-2088	MD962088	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-07T00:00:00	-22.75000	14.20000	-105					used as GC, Top very soft diatomaceous mud. CC hard rock (Calcareous crust ?, Mollusk boreholes, old platform?, Reason for Banana and lost core). Above Hardground conglomarate overlying by Mollusk shells and green mud. Core catcher pressed in a liner.
MD96-2089G	MD962089G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-08T00:00:00	-23.26667	12.80333	-1007					Top very soft olive green diatomaceous mud. CC: dark olive green diatomaceous mud, stiff. Some mollusk and gastropod shells.
MD96-2090G	MD962090G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-09T00:00:00	-17.69833	11.15833	-1466					Top olive green soft Foram-bearing, biosiliceous Nanno Ooze. CC: more stiff olive green, silty to sandy biosiliceous Nanno Ooze, few foraminifers. Sediment much more terrigenous than in the Northern Cape Basin.
MD96-2090	MD962090	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-09T00:00:00	-17.69833	11.16000	-1466					Olive green Foram- and Nanno-bearing, biosiliceous silty to sandy mud, with high content of terrigenous and authigenic minerals (quartz, feldspar, hornblende, biotite, glauconite and heavy minerals). Attention: Core section depths were changed by several
MD96-2091G	MD962091G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-10T00:00:00	-14.89000	10.38833	-3566					Grey Foram-bearing Nannofossil Ooze, soft, biosiliceous and terrigenous minerals. Top 10 cm yellowish brown. Imbedded are small turbidites of forams, spicules, glauconite, quartz and other terrigenous minerals below 150 cm, perhaps also mud pebble flows.
MD96-2091	MD962091	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-10T00:00:00	-14.89000	10.38833	-3569					Light to dark grey hemipelagic Foram-bearing Nannofossil Ooze, terrigenous grains, first meter relatively soft. Upper 2 cm brown. For the first 5 sections liner rims are contaminated with soft sediment from the top. CC: grey hemipelagic Foram-bearing hemi
MD96-2092B	MD962092B	Box corer	BC		1996-10-11T00:00:00	-12.15500	12.56833	-1837					Grey hemipelagic Foram-bearing Nanno Ooze, soft. 0.5 cm brownish fluff layer. 24 syringe samples A+B series: 1, 4, 8...., 44 cm and 2 surface samples.
MD96-2092	MD962092	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-11T00:00:00	-12.15500	12.56833	-1837					Hemipelagic Foram-bearing mud, olive green gray, no brown layer at the top. Upper 5 m heavily disturbed by flow in. H2S odor and and large (2 cm diameter) open burrows containing soupy sediment. Below 7.50 m 2 cm missing (in a blue cap), fall out during c
MD96-2092G	MD962092G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-11T00:00:00	-12.15500	12.56833	-1838					Light to dark olive green-grey hemipelagic Foram-bearing mud. heavily bioturbated.
MD96-2093G	MD962093G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-12T00:00:00	-16.56833	10.84333	-2678					Olive green Foram bearing hemipelagic mud. Burrows or gas holes filled with watery very soft mud. H2S odor already in the upper 2 meters.
MD96-2094G	MD962094G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-13T00:00:00	-20.00000	9.26500	-2281					Top light brown Nanno Foraminiferal Ooze. CC: light green Foram-bearing Nanno Ooze.
MD96-2093	MD962093	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-13T00:00:00	-16.56833	10.84333	-2682					bended; top very soft, watery olive green mud, great part flown out. Between sections 1 and 2 (150 cm) also watery sediment flown out now voids. Probably original sediment ruptured by piston effect and voids filled with soupy mud from above. lower core pr
MD96-2094	MD962094	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-13T00:00:00	-20.00000	9.26500	-2280					Lot of soupy sediment flow out at the top. Top sediment now light greenish Nanno Foram Ooze. No brown surface layer, probably lost.
MD96-2095G	MD962095G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-13T00:00:00	-20.32333	11.48667	-1036					Olive green, biosiliceous, Foram-bearing Nanno Ooze. Top very soft.
MD96-2095BC	MD962095BC	Box corer	BC		1996-10-13T00:00:00	-20.32833	11.48667	-1038					Olive green, biosiliceous, Foram-bearing Nanno Ooze. Top soft. 2 surface samples, 16 A+B syringe series: 1, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 38, 42, 46, 50, 56, 60.
MD96-2095	MD962095	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-13T00:00:00	-20.32833	11.48667	-1038					Olive to dark olive green biosiliceous Foram and Nanno-bearing Ooze. Top very soft, lot of water along the liner rim, coming out during cutting.
MD96-2096G	MD962096G	Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-14T00:00:00	-21.84667	10.68167	-3500					light gray to white Foram Nanno Ooze. Top slightly light brown, very soft, sandy with forams.
MD96-2096	MD962096	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-14T00:00:00	-21.84667	10.68167	-3500					White to very light olive Foram Nanno Ooze. Top very soft, some part of surface lost. Liner disconnected between sections 13a and 13b (1818 cm),. 30 cm of sediment lost in the core tube between 13a and 13b. Washed out from the tube and partly packed as an
MD96-2089	MD962089	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-15T00:00:00	-23.26667	12.72000	-1009					bended, olive to dark olive green biosiliceous mud, Forams and Nannos. Top very soft, partly lost. Clean water coming out during cutting sections 13 and 14 (1950 cm, Pistonage?). Lot of voids filled with very soupy sediment (Why?) in the last 6 sections (
MD96-2097	MD962097	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-15T00:00:00	-23.38667	11.97667	-2663					Light olive green to olive green Foram Nanno Ooze. Pistonage, small voids in the upper sections. Section 4 (4.70 m to 6.00m) void. Section 19 (19.50-21.00m) void. Reflectance record points to stage 12.
MD96-2099BC	MD962099BC	Box corer	BC		1996-10-16T00:00:00	-29.29500	14.24833	-1004					Light olive green Foram Nanno Ooze. Top soft. Some shell fragments. A+B-series: 1, 4,.., 36, and 2 surface samples.
MD96-2098	MD962098	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-16T00:00:00	-25.60000	12.63000	-2910					Greenish white to dark olive green Nanno Foram biosiliceous Ooze. Section 6 (7.50 to 9.00 m) empty. Seems to be a good high resolution record.
MD96-2099G		Gravity corer	GC		1996-10-17T00:00:00	-29.30000	14.25000	-1005					
MD96-2099	MD962099	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-17T00:00:00	-29.29500	14.24833	-1005					Light olive green Foram Nanno Ooze. Probably last 250.000 years missing. Top stage 7 according to Coccolithophorid stratigraphy and color reflectance.
MD96-2078	MD962078	Calypso Corer	CALYPSO		1996-10-21T00:00:00	-32.49833	29.92333	-2999					Empty, release too early due to heavy waves.