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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  920/1020  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   257.02
Core:  27   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   256.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   256.92

LITHOLOGY: CHERT;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1020/1500  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   257.50
Core:  27   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   256.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   257.02

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBER ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : VEINLETS OF WHITE CALCITE AND ONE GRAYISH BLUE-GREEN
               (5BG 5/2) CELAD(?);

  Alteration : TOP FEW CENTIMETERS BLEACHED TO A LIGHT OR VERY
               WHITE PALE BROWN (5Y 8/3);

  Comments   : BASALT IN PCES ABOUT 13+15+11CM LONG THAT CAN BE FIT
               BACK TOGETHER AND 4 ADDITIONAL IRREGULAR PCES THAT
               CAN BE FIT BACK TOGETHER, COLOR IS LIGHT GRAY (N7)
               DRY AND OLIVE BLACK (5Y 2/1) WET;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,CELAD
               SOME AMYGDULES OF SAME MINERALS AS VEINLETS;

  Replacement: CELADONITE
               IN ONE VEINLET,ID UNCERTAIN FOR CELAD;

               CALCITE
               WHITE, IN VEINLETS;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   257.60
Core:  27   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   256.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   257.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : COMMON VEINLETS OF WHITE CALCITE AND GRAYISH
               BLUE GREEN (5BG 5/2) CELAD(?);

  Comments   : LIGHT GRAY N7 WHEN DRY AND OLIVE BLACK 5Y 2/1
               WHEN WET;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               WHITE;

               CELADONITE
               ID UNCERTAIN, GRAYISH BLUE GREEN (5BG 5/2);


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  430/1500  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   266.50
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   265.43

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FELD PHENOS PRESENT;

  Structure  : VEINED WITH WHITE (CALCITE) AND GREEN (CHLORITE?
               CHLOROPHAEITE?);

  Comments   : LIGHT GRAY (N7) ON DRY CUT SURFACES, DARK GRAY
               (N3) TO DARK GREENISH GRAY (5GY 4/1) WHEN
                WET, PORTION AT ABOUT 85CM CUBED FOR SOUND
               VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS;

  Vesicles   : AMYGDULES LESS MODERATELY COMMON THAN FELD PHENOS;

  Phenocrysts: FELDSPAR
               Size(mm):         <1
               MODERATELY COMMON;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               WHITE;

               CHLORITE
               QUESTIONABLE, GREEN;

               CHLOROPHAEITE
               QUESTIONABLE, GREEN;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   268.00
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   266.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : AT 105CM POSSIBLE GLASSY SELVAGE OF A PILLOW;

  Structure  : WHITE AND GREEN VEINS AS ABOVE, PCE AT 105CM HAS A
               WIDE GREEN VEIN-MAYBE A GLASSY SELVAGE OF A PILLOW;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY;
               NOTE: 158CM LONG;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   269.50
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   268.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : WHITE AND GREEN VEINS AS ABOVE;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   271.00
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect:  4    Top of Section Depth(m):   269.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : GREEN GLASSY SELVAGE(?) AT 102CM;

  Structure  : WHITE AND GREEN VEINS AS ABOVE, VEINING PROMINENT
               BETWEEN 44 AND 83CM;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1430  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   272.43
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect:  5    Top of Section Depth(m):   271.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : GREEN GLASSY(?) SELVAGE(?) AT 97CM;

  Structure  : WHITE AND GREEN VEINS AS ABOVE;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   274.00
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect:  6    Top of Section Depth(m):   272.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : LAST PCE IS FINE-GRAINED;

  Structure  : IN INTERVAL (0-143) WHITE AND GREEN VEINS AS ABOVE,
               SOMEWHAT LESS VEINING BETWEEN 70CM AND 120CM, LAST
               PCE IS VEINED;

  Alteration : LAST PCE IS ALTERED;

  Comments   : INTERVAL (0-143) IS DARK GRAY, THE LAST PCE IS DARK
               YELLOWISH BROWN (10YR 4/1);

  Vesicles   : A FEW AMYGDULES IN THE LAST PCE;

  Replacement: MONTMORILLONITE
               IN THE LAST PCE;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Moberly, R.
Hole: 164   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   274.10
Core:  28   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   265.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   274.10

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;


    

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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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