Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Nakamura, K.
Hole: 460   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    58.50
Core:   7   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    57.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    57.00

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           IGNEOUS COBBLE;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : SEDIMENT THROUGHOUT SECTION WITH INCLUSION OF
               BASALT COBBLE AT 142-146CM;


Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 180  Analyst: Nakamura, K.
Hole: 460   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    58.38
Core:   7   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    57.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    58.30

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           IGNEOUS COBBLE;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : SEDIMENT THROUGHOUT SECTION WITH INCLUSION OF
               BASALT COBBLE AT 15-18CM;

  Alteration : SLIGHTLY;


Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1430  Analyst: Nakamura, K.
Hole: 460   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    67.93
Core:   8   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    66.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    66.50

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           IGNEOUS COBBLE;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : SEDIMENT THROUGHOUT SECTION WITH INCLUSION OF
               CPX PHYRIC BASALT COBBLE AT 140-143CM;


Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 220  Analyst: Nakamura, K.
Hole: 460   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    68.17
Core:   8   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    66.50
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    68.05

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           IGNEOUS COBBLES;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : SEDIMENT THROUGHOUT SECTION WITH INCLUSIONS OF
               IGNEOUS COBBLES FROM 15-22CM, ROCK FRAGMENTS ARE
               ANGULAR AND ARE <1.5CM IN DIAMETER;


Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 170  Analyst: Natland, J.
Hole: 460   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    76.17
Core:   9   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    76.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    76.10

LITHOLOGY: APHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (0-3), 2 (5-11), 3 (13-17);

  Texture    : APHYRIC, FINE GRAINED, XTLS OF PLAG VISIBLE ON SAWED
               SURFACES, PCE 3 HAS FE.OXIDE CRUSTS ON OUTER
               SURFACE, PCES 2-3 LOOK VERY SIMILAR;

  Structure  : PCE 1 NOT SPLIT;

  Alteration : EXT
               PCE 3 HAS A THIN ALTERATION RIND;

  Comments   : BASALT IS BROWNISH GREY;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):      1-3   Percent:   1-2

  Replacement: FERROUS OXIDE
               AS CRUSTS ON PCE 3;

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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