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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Churkin, M.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   332.60
Core:  30   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   328.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   332.60

LITHOLOGY: LIMESTONE AND BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FINE-GRAINED NANNO LIMESTONE WITH VUGS AND VEINLETS
               FILLED WITH CALCITE AND IN CONTACT WITH BASALT;


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/  40  Analyst: Churkin, M.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   337.04
Core:  31   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   337.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   337.00

LITHOLOGY: LIMESTONE;


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   40/ 700  Analyst: Churkin, M.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   337.70
Core:  31   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   337.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   337.04

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : BASALT IS FINE-GRAINED, GLASS LOCATED BETWEEN
               27-37CM, GLASS AT 51CM BLACK AND IRON STAINED 3-6
               MM, RIMMING CONTACTS OF BASALT AND LIMESTONE;

  Structure  : CALCITE VEINS PRESENT;

  Comments   : PROBABLY BASALT INTRUSION INTO NANNO OOZE OR CHALK,
               BASALT IS DARK GRAY 10YR4/1, IRON DENDRITE
               STRUCTURE DEVELOPED INTO LIMESTONE AT CONTACT,
               FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" AND
               CORE DESCRIPTION IN THE SITE 205 CHAPTER OF
               THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):     TO 3   Percent:
               SLIGHTLY VESICULAR;


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Churkin, M.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   338.60
Core:  31   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   337.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   338.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : FINE-GRAINED;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" AND
               CORE DESCRIPTION IN THE SITE 205 CHAPTER OF THE
               INITIAL REPORTS;

  Vesicles   : SOME VESICLES PRESENT;

  Replacement: IRON OXIDE
               IRON OXIDE ALTERATION OF PLAG;


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Van der Lingen, G.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   347.50
Core:  32   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   346.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   346.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Structure  : RARE CALCITE VEINS, MOST VEINS IRON STAINED;

  Comments   : OLIVE GRAY 5Y4/1, FOR MORE INFORMATION
               REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" AND CORE DESCRIPTION IN
               THE SITE 205 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL REPORTS;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):      1-2   Percent:
               SLIGHTLY VESICULAR;

  Replacement: CALCITE


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Van der Lingen, G.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   349.00
Core:  32   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   346.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   347.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           SAME AS SECTION 32-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" AND CORE
               DESCRIPTION IN THE SITE 205 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL
               REPORTS;


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Van der Lingen, G.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   350.50
Core:  32   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   346.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   349.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           SAME AS SECTION 32-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" AND CORE
               DESCRIPTION IN THE SITE 205 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL
               REPORTS;


Leg : 21    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Van der Lingen, G.
Hole: 205   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   350.60
Core:  32   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   346.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   350.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;
           SAME AS SECTION 32-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO "LITHOLOGY" AND CORE
               DESCRIPTION IN THE SITE 205 CHAPTER OF THE INITIAL
               REPORTS;


    

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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