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

 

NORCOR Marine Geology Repository

at Oregon State University

http://corelab-www.oce.orst.edu/ 

 

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 

Deep-Sea Sample Repository

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/CORE_REPOSITORY/RHP1.html

 

Deep Sea Drilling Program and 

Ocean Drilling Program Core Repositories

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/curation/

 

Antarctic Research Facility

http://www.arf.fsu.edu/

 

British Ocean Sediment Core Repository (BOSCOR)

http://europa.soc.soton.ac.uk/Boscor/boscor.htm

 

GEOMAR databank for Ocean Floor Samples (Lithothek)

http://www.geomar.de/zd/lithothek/LithoWeb/tabbar.html