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Famed Geologist G. O'Logee returns from his latest Worldwide Igneous Rock Expedition with a collection of Igneous rocks that he gathered and processed by taking down decimal geo coordinates of location each rock was found; and the mineral composition, the chemical analysis (Total Alkali Silica) data, and the texture of each rock.
During the expedition he collected ten different types of rocks and labeled them as:
| # |
Type |
| 0 |
Foidite |
| 1 |
Picro-basalt |
| 2 |
Trachy-andesite |
| 3 |
Phono-Tephrite |
| 4 |
Tephri-phonolite |
| 5 |
Phonolite |
| 6 |
Basalt |
| 7 |
Trachy-basalt |
| 8 |
Trachyte |
| 9 |
Rhyolite |
In reviewing his notes that his assistant Marti Dagas transcribed, he begins to enter the first set of data from the expedition:
| Site #1: |
N 54 37.057 E 012 15.700 |
| Site #2: |
N 37 01.276 E 006 25.690 |
| Site #3: |
N 55 24.749 E 011 50.546 |
| Site #4: |
N 48 16.567 E 003 44.115 |
| Site #5: |
N 57 09.706 E 014 37.514 |
| Site #6: |
N 48 37.280 E 010 42.759 |
| Site #7: |
N 59 32.048 E 008 32.054 |
| Site #8: |
N 48 38.722 E 006 27.151 |
| Site #9: |
N 49 27.454 E 010 08.728 |
| Site #10: |
N 50 02.728 E 009 52.528 |
| Site #11: |
N 60 03.274 E 008 01.475 |
| Site #12: |
N 47 09.287 E 003 02.729 |
| Site #13: |
N 47 39.334 E 006 14.745 |
| Site #14: |
N 72 27.089 E 012 32.907 |
As soon as he gets to the last item he notices something is very wrong as there is no way he found an igneous rock floating in the middle of the Norwegian Sea.
He frantically tries to reach his assistant, but with no success. The data has to mean something and now he must figure out just what did Marti do wrong to his data because he cannot come back from such a long expedition with no useful data.
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