2008 January 29 (Day 42)
Weather: Overcast
Site: C0008 (NT2-10) (33°12’ N, 136°43’ E)

We have continued to core through the slope basin deposits at site C0008 (proposed as NT2-10A), and have switched to ESCS coring due to increasing lithification and several HPCS cores that required overdrilling to recover. The cored material consists of mudstone with some sand and ash intervals and minor deformation features.