Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 16    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):     /      Describer: Yeats, R.S.
Hole: 162   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   144.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  17   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   150.10   Sect/Pc #: CC/

ROCK = ALTERED GLASSY BASALT
       SOURCE IS IR, SEE PAGE 370;
       Texture: SERIATE,POORLY DEVELOPED FLOW STRUCTURE,
       MICROPHYRIC*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE
             Size(mm):   0.03-1.5
             NORMALLY ZONED MICROPHENOS WITH CORES AS CALCIC
             AS SODIC BYTOWNITE,APPROX COMP AN72,RARE EUHEDRAL
             OSCILLATORY ZONING;

             AUGITE                    ( RARE%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.4  Morphology: SHEAFLIKE CRYSTALS
             2VZ=50-15,Z-C=39;

             OLIVINE
             Size(mm):   0.05-0.2
             COMPLETELY ALTERED*

Groundmass - GROUNDMASS
             INCLUDES CPX+PLAG+OP.MINS WITH IDDINGSITE
             ALTERATION PRODUCTS,PLAG XTLLITES COMMONLY
             HAVE GLASS-FILLED CORES;

             OPAQUE MINERALS
             FINELY DIVIDED*

Alteration - SERPENTINITE
             Replacing: OL

             IDDINGSITE

Vesicles   -
             Size(mm):  0.1-0.9
             Filling: BASALT,CALCITE,

             Filling: SERP,CHLORITE

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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