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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 420  Analyst:
Hole: 177A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   378.92
Core:  24   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   378.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   378.50

LITHOLOGY: DIABASE AND BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : BASALT IS GLASSY;

  Structure  : CUT BY CALCITE VEINS;

  Alteration : SLIGHTLY ALTERED TO ALTERED;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY DIABASE, FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO
               "LITHOLOGIC SUMMARY" IN THE SITE 177 CHAPTER OF THE
               INITIAL REPORTS;

  Replacement: CALCITE

  Comments   : % IN VEINS;


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 177A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   381.50
Core:  24   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   378.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   380.00

LITHOLOGY: DIABASE AND BASALT;
           SAME AS SECTION 24-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGIC SUMMARY"               IN THE SITE 177 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst:
Hole: 177A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   381.60
Core:  24   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   378.50
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   381.60

LITHOLOGY: DIABASE AND BASALT;
           SAME AS SECTION 24-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGIC SUMMARY"               IN THE SITE 177 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 550  Analyst:
Hole: 177A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   382.05
Core:  25   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   381.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   381.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE-GRAINED;

  Structure  : DENSE;

  Alteration : FRESH;

  Comments   : GREY-BLACK BASALT, IN CONTACT WITH CHALK AT BOTTOM,
               FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO THE SITE 177 CHAPTER
               OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1110  Analyst:
Hole: 177A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   384.11
Core:  25   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   381.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   383.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           GREENSTONE;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE-GRAINED;

  Structure  : DENSE, GREEN-BLACK 5G 3/1 ON FRACTURE SURFACES;

  Alteration : FRESH;

  Comments   : LIGHT TO DARK GREEN GRAY, NO CONSISTENT COLOR, FOR
               MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGIC SUMMARY" IN
               THE SITE 177 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;


Leg : 18    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1110/1500  Analyst:
Hole: 177A  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   384.50
Core:  25   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   381.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   384.11

LITHOLOGY: NANNO BEARING MUD;


    

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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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