Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 140  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 166A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.14    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.14
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     64        49         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FORAM NANNO RAD OOZE                                        
Screen Lith    : FORAMINIFERA RICH NANNOFOSSIL RICH  CALCAREOUS OOZE         
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  140/1500  Age: QUATERNARY
Hole: 166A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.14    Age: QUATERNARY
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.36
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      2        72        27       1.15/ 93            123
 
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Shipboard Lith : RAD OOZE                                                    
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH DIATOM RICH RADIOLARIA OOZE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLIOCENE
Hole: 166A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.50    Age: PLIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    3.00    Age: 
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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     35        50        27       1.16/ 92            146
 
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Shipboard Lith : RAD OOZE                                                    
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH DIATOM RICH RADIOLARIA OOZE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole: 166A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    3.00    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    4.50    Age: 
Sect:  3    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     35        50        27       1.14/ 93            149
 
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Shipboard Lith : RAD OOZE                                                    
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH DIATOM RICH RADIOLARIA OOZE                      
 
 
 
Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Hole: 166A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    4.50    Age: UPPER MIOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    6.00    Age: 
Sect:  4    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
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
     35        50        27       1.15/ 93            153
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : RAD OOZE                                                    
Screen Lith    : GLASS RICH DIATOM RICH RADIOLARIA 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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