Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1300  Age: 
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.30    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.30
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAYSTONE DRILL CUTTINGS                                    
Screen Lith    : CLAYSTONE                                                   
 
 
 
Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: CENOZOIC
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   11.00    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   12.50    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
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      4         0        96           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : MICRONODULE RICH DET CLAY SILT                              
Screen Lith    : MICRONODULE RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY             
 
 
 
Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: CENOZOIC
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   12.50    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   14.00    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      4         2        94       1.23/ 88            155
 
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Shipboard Lith : SILTY CLAY                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH MUD             
 
 
 
Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   14.00    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   15.50    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : SILTY CLAY                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH MUD             
 
 
 
Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   15.50    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   17.00    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  4    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.41/ 77            156
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SILTY CLAY                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH MUD             
 
 
 
Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   17.00    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   18.50    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  5    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : DET SILTY CLAY                                              
Screen Lith    : MUD                                                         
 
 
 
Leg : 29    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: NEOGENE
Hole: 283A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   18.50    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   20.00    Age: MIOCENE
Sect:  6    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC SILTY CLAY                                         
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH PELAGIC CLAY

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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