Deep Sea Sample Repositories - Samples of sediments from the ocean floor are stored in a variety of locations world wide. Here are links to some of the larger of these lithostratigraphic libraries. A more comprehensive listing can be found below at the NGDC Index to Marine Geological Samples link.
NGDC World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder The Index to Marine Geological Samples http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:80/mgg/curator/curator.html
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NORCOR Marine Geology Repository at Oregon State University http://corelab-www.oce.orst.edu/
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Deep-Sea Sample Repository http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CORE_REPOSITORY/RHP1.html
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Deep Sea Drilling Program and Ocean Drilling Program Core Repositories http://www-odp.tamu.edu/curation/
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Antarctic Research Facility
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British Ocean Sediment Core Repository (BOSCOR) http://europa.soc.soton.ac.uk/Boscor/boscor.htm
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GEOMAR databank for Ocean Floor Samples (Lithothek) http://www.geomar.de/zd/lithothek/LithoWeb/tabbar.html
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