Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  114.00    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  115.50    Age: 
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     35        50       100       1.32/ 83            150
 
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Shipboard Lith : DIATOM OOZE                                                 
Screen Lith    : DIATOM OOZE                                                 
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  115.50    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  117.00    Age: 
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.32/ 82            158
 
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Shipboard Lith : DIATOM SILT WITH VOLCANIC GLASS AND RADIOLARIANS            
Screen Lith    : DIATOM RICH SILT                                            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  117.00    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  118.50    Age: 
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     10        10       100       1.33/ 82            157
 
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Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC CLAY                                               
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH PELAGIC CLAY                                   
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   0 /150   Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  118.50    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  120.00    Age: 
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     10        10       100       1.30/ 84            157
 
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Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC CLAY                                               
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH PELAGIC CLAY                                   
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   0 /150   Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  120.00    Age: LOWER PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  121.50    Age: 
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     10        10       100       1.34/ 81            157
 
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Shipboard Lith : BROWN ZEOLITE MUD                                           
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH PELAGIC CLAY                                   
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   0 /100   Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  121.50    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  122.50    Age: 
Sect:  6    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         1        99       1.43/ 76            103
 
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Shipboard Lith : BROWN MUD                                                   
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH CLAY            
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 100 /150   Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  122.50    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  123.00    Age: 
Sect:  6    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1         5        94       1.47/ 74             53
 
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Shipboard Lith : VOLCANIC SAND                                               
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :     /      Age: 
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  123.10    Age: 
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  123.10    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.00
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : RED CLAY                                                    
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH MUD             
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   0 / 30   Age: 
Hole:  51   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :  123.70    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):  124.00    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.30
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         2        98           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : BROWN MUD COATING CHERT FRAGMENTS                           
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH CLAYSTONE

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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