Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst:
Hole: 172   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    27.37
Core:   3   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    18.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    27.37

LITHOLOGY: BASALT FRAGMENTS;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE-GRAINED, 20% OF RECOVERED FRAGMENTS IS GLASS
               WITH ANGULAR EDGES AND CONCHOIDAL FRACTURE SURFACES;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGIC SUMMARY"               IN THE SITE 172 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst:
Hole: 172   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    23.10
Core:   4   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    23.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    23.10

LITHOLOGY: BASALT AND ZEOLITE FRAGMENTS;
           25% BASALTIC GLASS FRAGMENTS, 25-50% BASALT, 25-50%
           ZEOLITE FRAGMENTS;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : GLASS FRAGMENTS TO 3-4MM, CONCHOIDAL FRACTURED
               ANGULAR FRAGMENTS, OCCASIONAL WHITE ZEOLITE CRUST,
               BASALT IS VERY FINE-GRAINED ANGULAR FRAGMENTS;

  Comments   : GLASS IS BLACK, FINE-GRAINED BASALT IS GRAY;

  Replacement: PALAGONITE
               GLASS COMMONLY WITH ATTACHED PALAG;

               ZEOLITE
               OCCASIONAL ZEOLITE CRUST ON BASALTIC GLASS;

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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