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WDC MGG Seafloor Series Vol I

Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg 7, hole 61A

Total penetration (m):99
# sediment cores:2
Oldest sediment core:1
Oldest sediment age:Upper Cretaceous
Oldest sediment description: chert
Type of crust:oceanic
Rock description:altered basalt
Other holes at this site:61

Data types available:
age profile original delimited  
carbon/carbonate original delimited  
core depth recovery original delimited  
density-porosity original delimited  
grain size original delimited  
gamma ray attenuation
porosity evaluator 		original delimited  
igneous/metamorphic rock
descriptions 		original delimited browse
igneous/metamorphic rock
thin section descriptions 		original  browse
site summary information original delimited  
smearslide descriptions original delimited browse
sonic velocity original delimited  
water chemistry
(interstitial) 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
bulk 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
clay fraction 		original delimited  

Related data in the Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples

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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.