Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1420  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 459   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.42    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.42
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        82       1.61/ 65            138
 
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Shipboard Lith : VITRIC SILICEOUS CALCAREOUS MUD                             
Screen Lith    : MUD                                                         
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1370  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 459   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.87    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.37
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     23        32        45       1.62/ 64            121
 
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Shipboard Lith : VITRIC SILICEOUS CALCAREOUS MUD                             
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH RADIOLARIA MUD                            
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 300  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 459   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.30    Age: 
Sect:  3    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     40         0        60           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : SANDY VITRIC NANNO MUD                                      
Screen Lith    : FELDSPAR RICH MARLY NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                        
 
 
 
Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 100  Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 459   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.40    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.50    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.10
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        60           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : SANDY VITRIC NANNO MUD                                      
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH NANNOFOSSIL RICH MUD

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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