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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 650  Analyst: Dmitriev, Y.
Hole: 424C  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    28.15
Core:   2   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    27.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    27.50

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (0-5), 2 (7-9), 3 (16-24), 4 (26-33),
               5 (37-44), 6 (46-53), 7 (55-63);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,VERY FINE-GRAINED & MICROPORPHYRIC IN PCES
               2-4,GLASS PERIPHERY FRINGE 1-2MM IN PCES 2+6;

  Alteration : FRESH
               BLUE CLAY.MIN COATS SURFACES OF PCES 1-2;

  Comments   : RENMANTS OF A LIGHTER PERIPHERY ZONE ARE VISIBLE IN
               PCES 2+4-5+7,BASALT IS SOMETIMES BANDED WITH LIGHTER
               & DARKER MINERALS,PCE 2 & OTHERS HAVE A TRANSITION
               FROM LIGHTER TO DARKER GRAY PCE 6,TWO COOLING UNITS
               ARE PRESENT FROM PCES 1-5 & PCES 6-7;

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling:
               Shape   : PINPOINT
               EMPTY VESICLES IN PCES 2-3 & PINPOINT VESICLES IN
               PCE 6;

               Size(mm):     TO 1   Percent:   1-2
               PCE 7;
               VUGS OFTEN GROUPED WITH VESICLES IN PCE 3,VUGS
               3-5% UP TO 2MM IN PCE 4 ALSO PRESENT IN PCE 5 BUT
               SMALLER & LESS ABUNDANT;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE               ( RARE%)
               RARE MICROPHENOS IN PCES 2-4;

  Replacement: CLAY MINERALS
               BLUE CLAY.MIN COATING WEATHERED SURFACES IN PCES
               1-2;


Leg : 54    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 690  Analyst: Dmitriev, Y.
Hole: 424C  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    32.19
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    31.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    31.50

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1A (0-6), 1B (6-13), 2 (16-30), 3 (34-42),
               4 (44-57), 5 (59-68);

  Texture    : APHYRIC,VERY FINE-GRAINED,BLACK GLASSY FRINGE ON PCE
               1 ABOUT 1CM;

  Structure  : MICROFISSURES IN PCE 4;

  Alteration : FRESH

  Comments   : BANDED GRAY & DARK GRAY GOING TO DARK GRAY WITH THE
               LOWER TWO-THIRDS HAVING A 0.6CM LIGHTER ZONE AROUND
               A DARKER CORE PCE 1,LIGHTER ZONES AROUND
               MICROFISSURE GRADING TO DARKER GRAY BASALT WITH
               PATCHES 1-2MM OF LIGHTER & DARKER GRAY WIDTH OF ZONE
               5CM IN PCE 4,TWO COOLING UNITS PRESENT FROM PCES 1-3
               & PCES 4-5;

  Vesicles   : VUGS PRESENT IN PCES 2+3;

               Size(mm):      0.5   Percent:   2-3
               Location:            Filling: UNIDENT.MINS
               PCE 1 WITH ABUNDANCE DECREASING IN LOWER PART OF
               PCE 1 & VESICLES IN THIS REGION ARE FILLED WITH
               RUSTY & GREENISH UNIDENT.MINS PCE 1B;

               Size(mm):            Percent:    <1
               Location:            Filling: UNIDENT.MINS
               FILLED WITH RUSTY-GREEN UNIDENT.MINS IN PCE 4;

               Location:            Filling:
               Shape   : PINPOINT
               SOME PINPOINT VESICLES IN PCES 4-5;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE               ( RARE%)
               RARE PLAG MICROPHENOS IN PCES 2-3;

  Replacement: UNIDENTIFIED
               RUSTY & GREEN UNIDENT.MINS IN VUGS;


    

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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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