may or may not be representative of original sediment state in 

 the seafloor. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Assistance in this endeavor has been received from many quarters. 

 Foremost of course is the Office of Naval Research, the sponsor 

 of this work. The Naval Oceanographic Office kindly contributed 

 ship time and space. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography permitted 

 the use of their spade-box corer after only one prep session in 

 its use by Dr. Neil Marshall. The officers and men of the USNS 

 WILKES and the NAVOCEANO scientific complement, especially First 

 Mate Joseph Flaherty and Bosun Patrick Browning, executed a faultless 

 coring operation with a piece of hardware totally new to them. 

 Special thanks are due Mr. F. 0. Lehnhardt for his assistance in 

 executing the various laboratory hardware set-up and testing, and 

 Mr. H. J. Lee for his constructive criticism of the drafts of this 

 report. 



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