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Yeah, this is interesting. We see some pyramid shaped structures.

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I can't really think of anything that jumps off the top of my head that would create features that look like this.

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Hopefully there are some geological folks on the line that might be able to

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have some sort of better idea of what could create this distinctive looking feature.

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Ah, excellent, there we go. That's a nice chunk of this structure that we're getting right now.

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And it looks like we're getting some whole pieces inside.

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I'm looking at the the chamber of our suction sampler right now.

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Yeah it's just really, absolutely friable. Very crumbly.

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Jason Chaytor of USGS has weighed in to tell us a little bit about them, which is awesome.

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So these are mudstones, or claystones.

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So it's the product of the hemipelagic sedimentation that you're been seeing here so far.

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These samples have largely been dewatered by compaction

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so basically just the weight of the sediments itself has squished the water itself out between them.

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Resulting in that really densely packed area.

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So this is probably an erosional feature that just happened to be carved into this really distinctive, interesting looking shape.