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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 14    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    14.25/   15.11
Hole: 143A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    14.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  250/1110
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 QUARTZOSE SILTY CLAY;C 5GY2/1-GREENISH BLACK,5Y2/1-OLIVE BLACK,-GREENISH;
H SOFT;M OXIDIZED PYRITE,MAGNETITE,FE-OXIDES;U GREENISH SILTY MUDSTONE 
FRAGS;Z 33213000 
 
 
Leg : 14    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    15.11/   15.18
Hole: 143A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    14.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1110/1180
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 CLAY;C 10YR7/4-GRAYISH ORANGE;H SOFT;O OXIDIZED "TOP" LAYER ?;D DISTURBED;
Z 33211000 
 
 
Leg : 14    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    15.18/   15.50
Hole: 143A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    14.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1180/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 MUDDY COARSE SAND TO GRAVEL;U GREENISH SILTY MUDSTONE FRAGS;H SOFT;C 
5GY2/1-GREENISH BLACK,5Y2/1-OLIVE BLACK;O LOOKS LIKE TALUS MATERIAL 
DEPOSITED ON STEEP (?) SLOPE -- MATERIAL FROM RX OUTCROPPING UNDERNEATH?;D 
DISTURBED;Z 33239000 
 
 
Leg : 14    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    15.50/   17.00
Hole: 143A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    14.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 MUDSTONE;C 5Y2/3-V.DK OLIVE,-BROWNISH GREY,-OLIVEGREY;S MASS OF MUDSTONE 
FRAGS WITH OCCASIONAL BLEBSOF BROWNISH GREY AND OLIVE GREY CLAYEY FORAM 
SAND,COMPLETELY UNSTRUCTURED;P FORAMS;O FORAMS CONSPICUOUSTHROUGHOUT AS 
ADMIXTURE IN MUD BETWEEN SHALE FRAGS;H SEMI-INDURATED;Z 33233000 
 
 
Leg : 14    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    17.10/   17.10
Hole: 143A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    14.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 LITHIC FRAGS -- MUDSTONE+QTZ SANDSTONE+FE.OXIDE CRUSTS;C -LT.OLIVE GREEN,
-GREENISH GREY;S BURROWS IN MUDSTONE (PREVIOUSLY PYRITIZED AND THEN 
WEATHERED OUT?);M FE CRUST,MN CRUST,HEAVIES+DK.MINS,PYRITE,MICA;O 
HOMOGENEOUS MUDSTONE,SUBANGULAR+MED-GRAINED QTZ SS,FE.OXIDE CRUSTS + FRAGS 
ASSOCIATED WITH SHALES AND ALONE;U PIECES OF FE + MN CRUST,PIECES OF 
FE-CEMENTED SHALE BRECCIA;S VEINLET WITH FEL? + PYRITE;H SEMI-INDURATED;Z 
33233000

Introduction


Cite as: Deep Sea Drilling Project (1989): Archive of Core and Site/Hole Data and Photographs from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V54M92G2 [access date]

These Web pages are from the Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 1-96 CD-ROM produced in 1989 and modified in 2000 by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Geophysical Data Center (now part of the National Centers for Environmental Information), and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder (now part of the World Data Service for Geophysics). Data were compiled in cooperation with the U.S. Science Support Program, of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (now the Consortium for Ocean Leadership), and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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