Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1080  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.08    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.08
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        50       1.76/ 56             85
 
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Shipboard Lith : SILT                                                        
Screen Lith    : SILT                                                        
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1080/1225  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.08    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.23    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  1    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
    100         0         0       1.78/ 55             16
 
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Shipboard Lith : SAND                                                        
Screen Lith    : CARBONATE RICH NANNOFOSSIL RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE            
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 320  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.82    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.32
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     90         0        10       1.64/ 64             33
 
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Shipboard Lith : TURBIDITE                                                   
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA OOZE                                           
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  320/ 560  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.82    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.06    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.24
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.60/ 66             25
 
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Shipboard Lith : LAMINITE?                                                   
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS OOZE.                                            
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  560/1500  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.06    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.94
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     95         0         5       1.74/ 57            100
 
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Shipboard Lith : CALCILUTITE                                                 
Screen Lith    : CARBONATE RICH INDURATED NANNOFOSSIL CHALK                  
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 260  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.26    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.26
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     60         0        40           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : COCCOLITH OOZE                                              
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH MARLY CALCAREOUS OOZE                     
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  260/ 950  Age: TERTIARY
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.26    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.95    Age: OLIGOCENE
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.69
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0       1.86/ 50             45
 
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Shipboard Lith : MUDSTONE                                                    
Screen Lith    : CALCAREOUS SEDIMENT.                                        
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 340  Age: UPPER CRETACEOUS
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   31.10    Age: SANTONIAN
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   31.44    Age: TURONIAN
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.34
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
    101         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : CALCARENITE                                                 
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH INDURATED CARBONATE CHALK                 
 
 
 
Leg :  1    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER CRETACEOUS
Hole:   5   Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   71.00    Age: SANTONIAN
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   72.50    Age: TURONIAN
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         0       1.73/ 58             77
 
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Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLAY

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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