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WDC MGG Seafloor Series Vol I

Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg 60, hole 459B

Physiographic feature:sediment pond
Total penetration (m):691
# sediment cores:73
Oldest sediment core:59
Oldest sediment age:Eocene
Oldest sediment description: claystone
Type of crust:oceanic
Depth to basement (m): 559
# Rock cores:13
Rock description:flow highly altered aphyric basalt
Other holes at this site:459  459A
Adjacent sites : 458 460 461

Data types available:
age profile original delimited  
benthic foraminifera original delimited browse
carbon/carbonate original delimited  
core depth recovery original delimited  
density-porosity original delimited  
discrete sediment
paleomagnetics 		original delimited browse
grain size original delimited  
gamma ray attenuation
porosity evaluator 		original delimited  
igneous/metamorphic rock
descriptions 		original delimited browse
igneous/metamorphic rock
paleomagnetics 		original delimited browse
igneous/metamorphic rock
major-element chemistry 		original delimited browse
igneous/metamorphic rock
minor-element chemisty 		original delimited browse
igneous/metamorphic rock
thin section descriptions 		original  browse
nannofossils original delimited browse
planktonic foraminifera original delimited browse
SCREEN descriptions original delimited browse
site summary information original delimited  
smearslide descriptions original delimited browse
sonic velocity original delimited  
visual descriptions original delimited browse
water chemistry
(interstitial) 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
bulk (WHOI) 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
clay fraction (WHOI) 		original delimited  

Related data in the Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples

External link to borehole logging data at LDEO

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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.