Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 16    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):     /      Describer: Yeats, R.S.
Hole: 159   Top of Core Depth(m)   :   108.00   Rock Type: IGNEOUS
Core:  14   Sample Midpoint(m)     :   108.10   Sect/Pc #: CC/

ROCK = ALTERED BASALT
       SOURCE IS IR, ALTERED;
       Texture: FINE-GRAINED*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   35%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-1.3
             APPROX COMP AN66,NORMAL TO CA-ANDESINE,LARGER
             PHENOS HAVE EUHEDRAL OSCILLATORY ZONING;

             PYROXENE                  (   45%)
             Size(mm):   0.05-0.3
             2VZ 30-35,Z-C=53,Z-X=0.016-0.022;

             OLIVINE                   (   TR%)
             Size(mm):   0.1-0.25
             COMPLETELY ALTERED TO SERP+IDDINGS+BOWLINGITE;

             OPAQUE MINERALS           (   10%)
             SHORT PARALLEL OCTAHEDRAL CHAINS;

             MATRIX                    (   10%)

Alteration - SERPENTINITE
             Replacing: OL

             IDDINGSITE
             Replacing: OL

             BOWLINGITE
             Replacing: OL

Vesicles   -
             Size(mm):  0.3-0.9
             Filling: FINE-GRAINED

             Filling: BASALT,OPAQUE

             Filling: BASALT GLASS,

             Filling: ZEOLITE,

             Filling: IDDINGS,

             Filling: BOWLINGITE

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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