2008 January 30 (Day 43)
Weather: Fine but Cloudy
Site: C0008 (NT2-10) (33°12’ N, 136°43’ E)

After changing over to the extended shoe coring system and recovering several cores containing lithified mudstone, drilling penetration rates increased dramatically and recovery decreased dramatically, down to near 0%. What material was recovered was dominantly sand. After coring through nearly 100 meters of sandy material, we requested permission to abandon this hole and permission to spud a new hole at this site.