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The Samples are oriented as if they were taken from an archive half. This means that the arrow etched into the cube points in the negative Z (i.e. towards the top of the core) on the ARCHIVE HALF SPLIT FACE (not the working half split face as a cube normally collected onboard would be). This can be confusing as most of the time, discrete samples would be collected from the working half. The arrow on the orange dot sticker points in the positive X direction of the IODP coordinate system. Be sure to keep this orientation in mind when loading into the instruments. See Figure 3 for sample orientation arrows
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