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Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  100/ 130  Describer: Laverne, C.
Hole: 507B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    31.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    31.12   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 20

ROCK = PLAG SPARSELY PHYRIC BASALT;
       Texture: SPARSELY PHYRIC,HYALOPILITIC;
       Where sampled: FLOW INTERIOR*

Phenocrysts- PLAGIOCLASE               (    1%)
             Size(mm):         .3  Morphology: EUHEDRAL
             ONE XTL HAS A VERY REGULAR ZONATION*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   43%)
             Size(mm):    .04-.50  Morphology: MICROLITES

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   24%)
             Size(mm):    .04-.25  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             MAGNETITE                 (    5%)
             Size(mm):   .003-.06  Morphology: ANHEDRAL OR SKELETAL

             GLASS                     (   20%)

Alteration - CALCITE                   (   <1%)
             Location: ASSOCIATED W/
             Location: SMEC IN
             Location: VESICLES

             SMECTITE                  (    2%)
             Location: FILLING OR
             Location: COATING
             Location: VESICLES OR
             Location: VOIDS IN THE
             Location: ALTERED RIM

Vesicles   -
             Size(mm):   .03-.3
             Percent:     4
             Location: SCATTERED
             Filling: SMEC+CALCITE OR
             Shape: ROUND

             Filling: EMPTY
             ONE FRACTURED BORDERED BY SMECTITE*




Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  160/ 220  Describer: Laverne, C.
Hole: 507B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    31.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    31.19   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 21

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT
       NO ALTERATION;
       Texture: APHYRIC,SUBOPHITIC,OPHITIC-INTERGRANULAR
       SOME INTERSERTAL AREAS;
       Where sampled: FLOW INTERIOR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   50%)
             Morphology: LATHS
             SIZE .1-.8X.001-.02,SOME(ABOUT 2 OR 3 IN SECTION)
             ARE ZONED;

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   35%)
             Size(mm):  .5-.05X.2  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             MAGNETITE                 (   10%)

             GLASS                     (    5%)
             IRREGULAR PATCHES OF INTERSTITIAL MATERIAL,FORMING
             THE INTERSERTAL AREAS*




Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  430/ 460  Describer: Laverne, C.
Hole: 507B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    31.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    31.44   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 24

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT;
       Texture: APHYRIC,COARSE-GRAINED,SUBOPHITIC,OPHITIC-
       INTERGRANULAR;
       Where sampled: FLOW INTERIOR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   46%)
             Morphology: LATHS
             SIZE .2-.6X.05-.1MM;

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   38%)
             Size(mm):      .1X.5  Morphology: ANHEDRAL

             MAGNETITE                 (    7%)
             Size(mm):     .05X.2  Morphology: SKELETAL

             GLASS                     (    8%)

Vesicles   -
             Percent:     1
             Filling: EMPTY
             Shape: ROUND




Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  530/ 550  Describer: Laverne, C.
Hole: 507B  Top of Core Depth(m)   :    31.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    31.54   Sect/Pc #:  1/PCE 25

ROCK = APHYRIC BASALT;
       Texture: APHYRIC,SUBOPHITIC,OPHITIC-INTERGRANULAR;
       Where sampled: FLOW INTERIOR*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   43%)
             Size(mm):      .2-.4  Morphology: MOST LATHS,SOME ANHEDRAL

             PLAGIOCLASE               (    3%)
             Size(mm):        .05  Morphology: MICROLITES

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   34%)
             Size(mm):     .04-.2  Morphology: ANHEDRAL
             SOMETIMES TWINNED;

             MAGNETITE                 (    5%)
             Size(mm):    .04-.16  Morphology: SKELETAL
             INTERSTITIAL WITH PLAG AND CPX OR IN THE GLASSY
             AREAS;

             GLASS                     (   10%)
             IRREGULAR PATCH OF INTERSTITIAL MATERIAL(GLASS+
             MICROLITES)BORDERED BY PLAG LATHS*

Alteration - CALCITE                   (   <1%)
             Location: GLASSY AREAS   Replacing: GLASS
             SIZE .06MM,ID UNCERTAIN FOR CALCITE AND GLASS
             REPLACEMENT*

Vesicles   -
             Size(mm):    .2-.3
             Percent:     4
             Location: SCATTERED
             Filling: EMPTY
             Shape: ROUND




    

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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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