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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 17    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     2.10/    2.10
Hole: 168   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     2.00
Core:   2   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 HIGHLY ZEOLITIC CLAY; C 10YR3/2-VERY DARK GRAYISHBROWN;S THOROUGHLY 
HOMOGENIZED;U 2 MANGANESE NODULES ABOUT 1 CM IN DIAMETER;O 15 CUBIC CM 
VOLUME;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 17    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    39.10/   39.10
Hole: 168   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    39.00
Core:   3   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 ZEOLITIC RADIOLARIAN OOZE;S THOROUGHLY HOMOGENIZED;O 1/2 LITER VOLUME;H 
WATERY;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 17    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    42.50/   44.00
Hole: 168   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    41.00
Core:   4   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 RADIOLARIAN BEARING ZEOLITIC BROWN CLAY;C 7.5YR3/2-DARK BROWN,
10YR2.5/1-BLACK;D INTENSE DEFORMATION;UCHERT FRAGMENTS 40-42 AND 109-113 
CM LARGE CHERT PIECE,CHERT FRAGMENTS 113-150;O 42-65 CM RADIOLARIA 
PROBABLY ABUNDANT;H VERY WATERY 6/38 AND 86-102 CM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 17    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    61.60/   61.60
Hole: 168   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    57.00
Core:   5   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 NANNO BEARING ZEOLITIC RADIOLARIAN CLAY AND CHERT;C 10YR3/3-DARK BROWN,
10YR4/2-DARK GRAYISH BROWN,10YR2.5/1-BLACK;S HOMOGENIZED;U 1 PIECE BROWN 
CHERT,1 PIECE GRAYISH BROWN CHERT,2 PIECES BLACK CHERT;P COCCOLITHS;O 
ABOUT 50% TINY CHERT FRAGMENTS;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 17    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    76.10/   76.10
Hole: 168   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    76.00
Core:   6   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 ZEOLITIC CLAY AND RADIOLARIAN CLAY;C 7.5YR5/6-BROWN,10YR3/2-VERY DARK 
GRAYISH BROWN;Z 33211000.2210.3350 
 
 
    

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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