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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 20    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :   389.75/  390.50
Hole: 195B  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :   389.00
Core:   3   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  750/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 CHERT,CHALK,MARL;C 2.5YR6/0-GRAY,7.5YR8/0-WHITE,N5.5-LIGHT GRAY,
10YR5/1-GRAY,N2-GRAYISH BLACK,5B8/2-VERY PALE BLUE,5B9/1-BLUISH WHITE,
5BG5/2-DARK GREEN,5BG7/2-DARK GREEN,10YR4/2-DARK GRAYISH BROWN,
5BG4/2-GRAYISH BLUE GREEN,N8-VERY LIGHT GRAY,5B7/1-LIGHT BLUISH GRAY,
5B7.5/1-BLUSIH GRAY,N5-MEDIUM GRAY,N8-VERY LIGHT GRAY,10G5/2-PALE GREEN TO 
GRAYISH GREEN,5B8/1-LIGHT BLUISH GRAY;S BLOCKS OF CHERT AND CHALK PROBABLY 
REPRESENTING AN INSITE SUCCESSION OF CHERTS INTERBERBEDDED WITH CHALK,
CHERT FRAGMENTS MOTTLED GRAY AND WHITE,BANDED GRAY AND WHITE,CHALKS ARE 
FINELY LAMINATED-VERY PALE BLUE AND BLUISH WHITE,ONE LUMP OF DARK GREEN 
FINELY LAMINATED IMPURE CHALK,FROM 75-96 CM CHERT OF DARK GRAYISH BROWN,
96-103 CM MARL OF GRAYISH BLUE GREEN GRADING DOWNWARD TO VERY LIGHT GRAY 
LAMINATED NEAR POINT OF COLOR CHANGE,FROM 103-106 CMCHERT OF LIGHT BLUISH 
GRAY WITH ADHERING WHITE CHALK,FROM 106-110 CM CHERT OF GRAYISH BLACK WITH 
ADHERING WHITE CHALK, FROM 110-115 CM CHALK BETWEEN LIGHTGREENISH GRAY AND 
LIGHT BLUISH GRAY LAMINATED WITHSMALL LENSES OF LIGHTER CHALK, 115-130 CM 
CHERTGRADING FROM GENERALLY VERY LIGHT GRAY IN UPPER PARTTO MEDIUM GRAY IN 
LOWER PART UPPER PART LAMINATED,FRP, 130-136 CM MARL BETWEEN PALE GREEN 
AND GRAYISHGREEN-THINLY LAMINATED, FROM 136-150 CM CHALK OF LIGHT BLUISH 
GRAY-THINLY AND FAINTLY LAMINATED;O CHUNKS,ALSO BANDED LIGHT GRAY AND GRAY 
AND GRAYISH BLACK,VOID FROM 0-75 CM;Z 00000000 
 
 
    

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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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