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WDC MGG Seafloor Series Vol I

Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  4    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 500  Analyst: Benson, W.E.
Hole:  23   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   184.50
Core:   7   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   184.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   184.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : HARD XTLLINE, SLIGHTLY DIABASIC, NO GLASS SEEN;

  Structure  : INDIVIDUAL XTLS ARE OF DOLERITE SIZE SUGGESTING
               THAT THIS MAY BE A SILL RATHER THAN A TRUE FLOW,
               BOTTOM PCE FROM CORE CATCHER HAS DIPPING LIGHT
               COLORED BED APPROXIMATELY 5MM THICK THAT MAY BE
               BAKED SEDIMENT;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: ZEOLITE
               SLIGHTLY AMYGDULOIDAL, THIN PRISMATIC XTL IN ONE
               AMYGDULE MAY BE A ZEOLITE;

  Groundmass : AUGITE
               ONE CRUSHED SAMPLE UNDER OILS SHOWED AUGITE;

               PLAGIOCLASE
               AN>50, INDIVIDUAL XTLS ARE OF DOLERITE SIZE;

  Replacement: ZEOLITE
               ID UNCERTAIN, IN AN AMYGDULE, PRISMATIC;


    

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These Web pages are from the Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 1-96 CD-ROM produced 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, and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder. Data were compiled in cooperation with the U.S. Science Support Program, the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Please see the NGDC privacy, disclaimer, and copyright notices.