112 THE DEPTH AND MARINE DEPOSITS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
Station 89, 24th September, 1899. 
Avatoru Pass, Paumotu Islands ; depth, 645 fathoms. 
CORAL MUD or PTEROPOD OOZE: white, slightly coherent, fine- 
grained, consisting of broken Corals, Mollusc shells, pelagic and bottom- 
living Foraminifera, coccoliths, Pteropods, Heteropods (Atlanta, etc.), 
KEchinoid spines. 
Station 42, 24th September, 1899. 
Avatoru Pass, Paumotu Islands; depth, 661 fathoms. 
PTEROPOD OOZE: very little material, which may not represent the 
deposit in situ, consisting of Pteropods, pelagic and bottom-living Fora- 
minifera, Ostracodes, Mollusc shells, Tunicate spicules, coccoliths, rhab- 
doliths, . etc. 
Station 43, 24th September, 1899. 
Lat. 15° 13’S.; long. 147° 53’ W.; depth, 341 fathoms. 
CORAL SAND: cream color, incoherent, consisting of Coral fragments, 
Pteropods, Heteropods (Atlanta, etc.), small Gasteropods (Plewrotoma, etc.), 
Bivalves, and Brachiopods, pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, cocco- 
liths, less than 1 per cent of angular mineral particles, mean diameter 
0.1 mm., including obsidian and felspar, small cosmic spherule. 
Station 44, 24th September, 1899. 
Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands; depth, 391 fathoms. 
CORAL SAND: cream or gray in color, made up’ of Coral fragments, 
Polyzoa, Pteropods, Heteropods (Adlanta, etc.), small Gasteropods, Bivalves, 
pelagic and bottom-living Foraminifera, coccoliths, and rhabdoliths. 
Station 45, 24th September, 1899. 
Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands; depth, 524 fathoms. 
CORAL SAND: gray, incoherent, fragments of Coral, Polyzoa, Pteropods, 
Heteropods, small Gasteropods, Echinoid spines, pelagic and bottom-living 
Foraminifera, coccoliths, rhabdoliths, Tunicate spicules. 
Station 46, 24th September, 1899. 
Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands; depth, 450 fathoms. 
PTEROPOD OOZE or CORAL SAND: gray, incoherent; made up of 
Coral fragments, Pteropods, Heteropods, Echinoid spines, Polyzoa, Alcyo- 
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