Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 27    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1370  Analyst: McKnight, B.K.
Hole: 260   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   322.37
Core:  18   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   319.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   321.00

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;
           ZEOLITE BEARING FERRUGINOUS CLAY;

  Comments   : SEDIMENT LIES ABOVE LAYER OF BASALT, NANNO OOZE +
               CLAY AND RAD CLAY ALSO PRESENT, SEE CORE FORM
               AND LITHOLOGIC DESCRIPTION IN THE INITIAL REPORTS
               FOR MORE INFORMATION;


Leg : 27    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1370/1500  Analyst: McKnight, B.K.
Hole: 260   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   322.50
Core:  18   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   319.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   322.37

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Structure  : ABUNDANT FRACTURES HEALED BY CALCITE AND CHLORITE
               (5 Y 2/1), CALCITE FRACTURE FILLINGS;

  Comments   : SEE CORE FORM AND LITHOLOGIC DESCRIPTION IN THE
               INITIAL REPORTS FOR MORE INFORMATION;

  Replacement: CHLORITE
               IDENTIFICATION UNCERTAIN;

               CALCITE
               ABUNDANT FRACTURES HEALED BY CALCITE AND
               CHLORITE;


Leg : 27    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: McKnight, B.K.
Hole: 260   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   322.60
Core:  18   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   319.50
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   322.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Comments   : FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE CORE FORM AND LITHOLOGIC
               DESCRIPTION IN THE INITIAL REPORTS;


Leg : 27    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: McKnight, B.K.
Hole: 260   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   330.50
Core:  20   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   329.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   329.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Texture    : FINE TO MEDIUM GRAINED;

  Structure  : FRACTURES HEALED BY CALCITE WITH CHLORITE
               ALTERATION IN SOME;

  Alteration : FRACTURES HEALED BY CALCITE WITH CHLORITE
               ALTERATION IN SOME;

  Comments   : SEE CORE FORM AND LITHOLOGIC DESCRIPTION IN THE
               INITIAL REPORTS FOR MORE INFORMATION;

  Replacement: CHLORITE

               CALCITE
               FRACTURES HEALED BY CALCITE WITH CHLORITE
               ALTERATION IN SOME;

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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