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WDC MGG Seafloor Series Vol I

Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg 66, hole 493A

Total penetration (m):21
# sediment cores:2
Oldest sediment core:3
Oldest sediment age:Quaternary
Oldest sediment description: green mud
Type of crust:contin.
Other holes at this site:493  493B
Adjacent sites : 489 490 491 492 488

Data types available:
age profile original delimited  
carbon/carbonate original delimited  
core depth recovery original delimited  
discrete sediment
paleomagnetics 		original delimited browse
grain size original delimited  
gamma ray attenuation
porosity evaluator 		original delimited  
nannofossils original delimited browse
SCREEN descriptions original delimited browse
site summary information original delimited  
smearslide descriptions original delimited browse
visual descriptions original delimited browse
x-ray mineralogy,
bulk (WHOI) 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
clay fraction (WHOI) 		original delimited  

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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.