Carnival artifacts produced a century ago to titillate fairgoers are often collected today almost like archaeological relics.
The cores collected today were between six and 18 metres long and the geologists think that this is enough to get mud tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of years old.
Mr. McCain was among a number of politicians whose phone numbers were collected today by aides to Richard B. Cheney, the former defense secretary who is heading Mr. Bush's search team, so that the Bush campaign can let them know in the coming days of the Texas governor's decision.
"Gold is just gold and in this Olympic run the 100 points I collected today are really precious, I thank everybody for this wonderful day".
More than one-third of the data hasn't been published before, and much of it couldn't be collected today because current safety rules ban flights in such perilous conditions, says Leo Holthuijsen, an oceanographer at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Even so, production difficulties continued, causing many minor varieties which are collected today.
