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Leg : 28    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  150/ 400  Analyst: Kemp, F.M.
Hole: 266   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   370.40
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   370.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   370.15

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT (NANNO FOSSIL CLAY AND BASALTIC GLASS);

  Comments   : SOFT PALE YELLOWISH BROWN SEDIMENT HAS THE
               APPEARANCE OF BEING A DRILLING SLUDGE - MADE UP
               OF FRAGMENTS NOT EXCEEDING 0.5 CM, PALE BROWN
               GREENISH GREY CHALK FRAGMENTS IDENTIFIABLE + ALSO
               ABUNDANT BLACK AND ORANGE FLAKES WHICH MAY BE RUST
               - BUT POSSIBLY INCLUDE BASALT AND GLASS CHIPS,
               SEE THE CORE FORM AND LITHOLOGIC DESCRIPTION IN THE
               INITIAL REPORTS FOR MORE INFORMATION;


Leg : 28    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  400/ 870  Analyst: Kemp, F.M.
Hole: 266   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   370.87
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   370.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   370.40

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Alteration : FRESH;

  Comments   : BLUE BLACK, DULL, SOME FRAGMENTS ARE FULL CORE
               DIAMETER AND PROBABLY IN PLACE, FRESH LOOKING,
               5 FRAGMENTS OF OBSIDIAN, SEE THE CORE FORM AND
               LITHOLOGIC DESCRIPTION IN THE INITIAL REPORTS FOR
               MORE INFORMATION;


Leg : 28    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst: Kemp, F.M.
Hole: 266   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   371.60
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   370.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   371.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Texture    : THREE FRAGMENTS OF BASALT RANGING 6 - 10 CMS IN
               DIAMETER, DENSE, FINE, ONE FRAGMENT BEARING ONE
               GLASSY FACE + BLACK VITREOUS CONCHOIDAL FRACTURE;

  Comments   : THREE FRAGMENTS OF BASALT RANGING 6 - 10 CMS IN
               DIAMETER, BLUE-BLACK;


Leg : 28    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Kemp, F.M.
Hole: 266   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   376.00
Core:  24   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   374.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   374.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Texture    : BASALT FRAGMENTS WITH BRECCIA - CREAM MATRIX
               (POSSIBLY CALCITE) ENCLOSING ANGULAR BLACK TO
               ORANGE GLASS FRAGMENTS, TWENTY-NINE FRAGMENTS IN
               CORE SECTION, SOME FRAGMENTS BEAR GLASSY SURFACES
               + CONCHOIDALLY FRACTURING;

  Structure  : BASALT FRAGMENTS FRACTURED AND ARE FILLED ALONG
               FRACTURES WITH CALCITE OR ZEOLITES;

  Comments   : BASALT FRAGMENTS WITH BRECCIA - CREAM MATRIX
               (POSSIBLY CALCITE) ENCLOSING ANGULAR BLACK TO
               ORANGE GLASS FRAGMENTS, BASALT BLUE-BLACK DULL,
               TWENTY-NINE FRAGMENTS IN CORE SECTION AND ABOUT
               HALF ARE FULL CORE DIAMETER FRAGMENTS - SO THEY
               HAVE PROBABLY NOT BEEN DISPLACED;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):      2-3   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: CALCITE
               BASALT IS VESICULAR - MOST INTENSELY SO
               BETWEEN 25-85 CM WITH VESICLES AVERAGING 2-3 MM
               IN DIAMETER, VESICLES ARE FILLED OR PARTIALLY
               FILLED WITH WHITE CRYSTAL GROWTH (IDENTIFICATION
               OF CALCITE QUESTIONABLE) + YELLOW DULL CAVITY
               LININGS, VESICLES POORLY DEVELOPED IN LOWER PART
               OF CORE;

  Groundmass : GLASS
               GLASS FRAGMENTS;

  Replacement: CALCITE

               ZEOLITE
               BASALT FRAGMENTS FRACTURED AND FILLED ALONG
               FRACTURES WITH CALCITE OR ZEOLITES, IDENTIFICATION
               OF CALCITE IN VESICLES QUESTIONABLE;


    

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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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