Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 100  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: HOLOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.10    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.10
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         6           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS TERRIGENOUS MUD                                  
Screen Lith    : CARBONATE RICH MUD                                          
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  100/ 680  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.10    Age: HOLOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.68    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.58
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         6           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL TERRIGENOUS MUD                      
Screen Lith    : CARBONATE RICH MUD                                          
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 250  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.78    Age: HOLOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.03    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.25
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         6           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNOFOSSIL TERRIGENOUS MUD                                 
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH MUD                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.00    Age: HOLOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.50    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         6       1.46/ 74            130
 
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Shipboard Lith : TERRIGENOUS NANNOFOSSIL MUD                                 
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL RICH MUD                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.50    Age: HOLOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.00    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     72         3        25       1.50/ 72            128
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 450  Age: CENOZOIC
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.00    Age: LOWER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.45    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.45
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     85         0        15           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
 
 
 
Leg : 77    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 150  Age: CENOZOIC
Hole: 539   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.55    Age: LOWER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.70    Age: UPPER PLIOCENE
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.15
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     50        35        15           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE                                            
Screen Lith    : NANNOFOSSIL OOZE

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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