Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1100       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    78.00    Silt: 015%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    79.10    Clay: 080%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (07%);  MICA (05%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (83%);
CARBONATE (20%);  NANNOFOSSIL (63%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1450       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    78.00    Silt: 025%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    79.45    Clay: 070%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: MARL

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (10%);  MICA (17%);  CARBONATE (10%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (75%);  FORAMINIFERA (05%);  NANNOFOSSIL (60%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    78.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    81.10    Clay:

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: TERRIGENOUS OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (20%);  MICA (04%);  PYRITE (01%);
CARBONATE (73%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (75%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);
NANNOFOSSIL (01%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1240       Sand: 100%   Sect:  1
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    87.60    Silt:
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    88.84    Clay:

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: QUARTZOSE SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (76%);  MICA (10%);  GYPSUM (05%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1250       Sand: 003%   Sect:  1
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    87.60    Silt: 012%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    88.85    Clay: 085%

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (06%);  PYROXENE (02%);  MICA (05%);
PYRITE (02%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (88%);  FORAMINIFERA (03%);
NANNOFOSSIL (88%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):  1480       Sand: 005%   Sect:  1
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    87.60    Silt: 015%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    89.08    Clay: 080%

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: TERRIGENOUS CALCAREOUS OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (07%);  PYROXENE (02%);  MICA (12%);
CARBONATE (66%);  ESTIMATED CARBONATE (79%);  FORAMINIFERA (03%);
NANNOFOSSIL (10%);



Leg : 13    Top Int Depth(mm):   610       Sand: 005%   Sect:  2
Hole: 122   Top Core Depth(m):    87.60    Silt: 020%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    89.71    Clay: 075%

Age : LOWER PLIOCENE
Name: MARL OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (10%);  MICA (20%);  CARBONATE (20%);
ESTIMATED CARBONATE (70%);  NANNOFOSSIL (50%);

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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