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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   138.10
Core:  10   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   138.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   138.10

LITHOLOGY: ZEOLITIC NANNOFOSSIL OOZE AND BASALT FRAGMENTS;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : BASALT FRAGMENTS (ANGULAR) DO NOT SHOW FRESH
               FRACTURES (COATED WITH A CONTINUOUS GREENISH FILM
               PROBABLY PRODUCED BY ALTERATION);

  Alteration : GREENISH FILM POSSIBLY PRODUCED BY ALTERATION;

  Comments   : VERY DISTURBED;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   149.60
Core:  11   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   148.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   149.60

LITHOLOGY: ZEOLITIC NANNOFOSSIL MUD AND BASALT FRAGMENTS;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : PORPHYRITIC;

  Comments   : FOUR PCES OF BLACK BASALT, ANGULAR, NO FRESHLY CUT
               OR FRESHLY BROKEN SURFACE ON BASALT, MUD IS PINK
               7.5YR 7/4;

  Vesicles   : VESICLES PRESENT;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   157.10
Core:  12   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   157.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   157.10

LITHOLOGY: BASALT AND CHERT AND CALCAREOUS CLAYSTONE AND
           ZEOLITIC NANNOFOSSIL CHALK;
           BASALT ON TOP, MAY BE FROM UPHOLE, CAVINGS?;

  Comments   : BLACK (N1 TO N2);


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   187.10
Core:  15   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   184.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   187.10

LITHOLOGY: CHERT AND BASALT AND LIMESTONE IN PASTE OF
           NANNOFOSSIL CHALK;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  120/ 160  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   192.16
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   192.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   192.12

LITHOLOGY: CHERT;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  160/1500  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   193.50
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   192.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   192.16

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : COARSE-GRAINED;

  Structure  : RELATIVELY MASSIVE WITH OCCASIONAL CALCITE FILLED
               VEINLETS, HORIZONTAL VEINLETS AND THE TOP PART;

  Comments   : BASALT (2 FIRST PCES SPLIT) IS LIGHT GRAY (N6-N7)
               WHEN DRY AND DARK GRAY (N3) WHEN WET;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):      >20   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,CHLORITE
               AT 35CM;

               Size(mm):        3   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,CHLORITE
               AT 52-58CM;

               Size(mm):       >9   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE,CHLORITE
               AT 90CM, CHLORITE ID UNCERTAIN, RARE CALCITE
               AMYGDULES SOME CONTAINING GREEN COLORED
               (CHLORITE?), THE ONLY AMYGDULES ARE AT THE TOP
               PART;

  Replacement: CALCITE

               CHLORITE
               ID UNCERTAIN;


Leg : 17    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Lancelot, Y.
Hole: 170   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   195.00
Core:  16   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   192.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   193.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           AS IN SECTION 16-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : NO CALCITE VEINLETS EXCEPT ONE (HORIZONTAL) AT
               131CM;

  Alteration : A ZONE OF WHITE CALCITE(?) SPECKS FROM 103CM TO
               113CM;

  Comments   : SPLIT AT 0-14 AND 60-70CM;

  Replacement: CALCITE
               ZONE OF WHITE CALCITE(?) SPECKS;


    

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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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