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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     4.00/    5.50
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL SILTY CLAY;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISH BROWN;S 0-84 
MOSTLY TEARING TYPE,SOME 3-5 CM BEDS OF SMOOTH,84-152 SMOOTH NO INTERNAL 
STRUCTURES;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     5.50/    7.00
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL CLAY;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISHBROWN;S SOME MOTTLING;H 
FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     7.00/    8.50
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  3
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL CLAY;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISHBROWN;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     8.50/   10.00
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  4
 
Visual Text Description:
 CLAY DIATOM OOZE;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISH BROWN;S SCATTERED 1 MM 
MOTTLES;H SOFT;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    10.00/   10.55
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/ 550
Sect:  5
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL CLAY;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISHBROWN,-FAINT OLIVE;O 
GRADUAL BOUNDARY;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    10.55/   11.43
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  550/1430
Sect:  5
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY CLAY DIATOM OOZE;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISH BROWN,-FAINT BROWN;S 
SCATTERED MOTTLES,RARE LARGEMOTTLES;O 143-150 GEOCHEM;H SOFT;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    11.55/   11.60
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   50/ 100
Sect:  6
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY CLAY DIATOM OOZE;H SOFT;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    11.60/   13.00
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  100/1500
Sect:  6
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL SILTY CLAY;C 5YR5/6-LIGHT BROWN,10YR5/4-MODERATE 
YELLOWISH BROWN;S BEDDING AND MOTTLING 60-100,144-150 CM;O 5YR5/6 10-100,
144-150 CM,100-144 CM IS 10YR5/4;H FIRM;Z 33213000.3450.3311 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    13.10/   13.10
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     4.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0
Sect: CC
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM RICH SILTY CLAY;C 10YR5/4-MODERATE YELLOWISH BROWN;H FIRM;Z 
00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    61.84/   62.50
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    61.00
Core:   3   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  840/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL CLAY;C 10YR6/2-PALE YELLOWISH BROWN,5YR6/4-LIGHT BROWN;S 
INTERMOTTLED;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 28    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    62.50/   64.00
Hole: 267A  Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    61.00
Core:   3   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 DIATOM DETRITAL SILTY CLAY;C 10YR6/2;S MOTTLED;O MOTTLED SEQUENCE SIMILAR 
TO 3-1;H FIRM;Z 33213000.3450.3311

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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