2008 January 19 (Day 32)
Weather: Fine but Cloudy
Site: C0007 (NT1-03) (33°01’ N, 136°47’ E)

After jetting, washing, and drilling down to the coring point at 175 mbsf, we began RCB coring at site C0007D. The first two cores were very low recovery, with evidence in the core catchers for sand similar to those recovered at C0007C. The third core recovered, however, recovered >3 meters of moderately lithified mudstone, and recovery of mudstone has continued to the writing of this report. Core processing operations are again underway in concert with completion of scientific analysis and write-up of data from previous wells.