The Challenger Seafloor Sample Collection in the year 2000

Nearly 130 years later in the climate controlled store rooms of the Natural History Museum in London, the Challenger Seafloor Sample Collection can still be found carefully stored in mahogany cabinets...

The Challenger Seafloor Sample Collection remains a unique and active research archive of samples and forms part of a much larger Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection held at the Natural History Museum in London. This collection consists of samples from some 40,000 world-wide localities and is the most comprehensive British Collection of sea-bed samples and cores.

A collaborative initiative with the Natural History Museum is is currently working on adding the Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection to the Southampton Oceanography Centre's BOSCORF database of seafloor samples.

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The Challenger Seafloor Sample Collection in the year 2000

Nearly 130 years later in the climate controlled store rooms of the Natural History Museum in London, the Challenger Seafloor Sample Collection can still be found carefully stored in mahogany cabinets...

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