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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  5    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  750/1040  Analyst:
Hole:  34   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   384.04
Core:  18   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   383.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   383.75

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;


Leg :  5    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1040/1500  Analyst:
Hole:  34   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   384.50
Core:  18   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   383.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   384.04

LITHOLOGY: METABASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE-GRAINED, APHANITIC;

  Structure  : FRACTURED, LARGE FRACTURES FILLED WITH CARBS AND
               CHLORITES (SOME SERP-LIKE MINERALS);

  Alteration : BROWN OXIDATION STAINS PARALLEL TO SMALL

  Comments   : % FRACTURES;

  Replacement: CARBONATE

               CHLORITE
               CHLORITES HAVE A GRAYISH-GREEN (10G 4/2) TO
               GRAYISH BLUE GREEN (5BG 5/2) COLOR, SOME PLACES
               IRRIDESCENT;

               SERPENTINITE
               SOME SERP-LIKE MINERALS FILL FRACTURES;


    

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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