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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 19    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Natland, J.
Hole: 191   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   905.10
Core:  15   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   905.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   905.10

LITHOLOGY: THOLEIITIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : NO GLASSY MATERIAL, VARIOLITIC;

  Alteration : FAIRLY WELL ALTERED;

  Comments   : COLOR IS DARK GRAY (N3), FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER
               TO THE SITE 191 CHAPTER APPENDIX "PETROGRAPHY OF
               BASALT" IN THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Groundmass : PYROXENE

               PLAGIOCLASE
               PYX-PLAG HIGH ALUMINA BASALT;


Leg : 19    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  100/1500  Analyst: Natland, J.
Hole: 191   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   911.50
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   910.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   910.10

LITHOLOGY: THOLEIITIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : VARIOLITIC, NO GLASSY MATERIAL;

  Structure  : GREEN VEIN AT 10CM;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY (N3), FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO THE
               SITE 191 CHAPTER APPENDIX "PETROGRAPHY OF
               BASALT" IN THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Groundmass : PYROXENE

               PLAGIOCLASE
               PYX-PLAG HIGH ALUMINA BASALT;


Leg : 19    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Natland, J.
Hole: 191   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   911.60
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   910.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   911.60

LITHOLOGY: THOLEIITIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY, FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO THE SITE
               191 CHAPTER APPENDIX "PETROGRAPHY OF BASALT"               IN THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Groundmass : PYROXENE

               PLAGIOCLASE
               PYX-PLAG HIGH ALUMINA BASALT;


    

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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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