Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):   550       Sand: 072%   Sect:  1
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 010%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     0.55    Clay: 018%

Age : UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Name: DETRITAL CLAYEY SAND

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (30%);  FELDSPAR (08%);  HEAVY MINERAL (01%);
GLASS (02%);  GLAUCONITE (45%);



Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):   500       Sand:        Sect:  3
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     3.50    Clay:

Age : UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Name: FORAM DIATOM RICH NANNO OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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FORAMINIFERA (15%);  NANNOFOSSIL (64%);  DIATOM (20%);
RADIOLARIA (01%);  SPICULE (02%);  SILICOFLAGELLATE (02%);



Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):   940       Sand:        Sect:  3
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     3.94    Clay:

Age : UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Name: DETRITAL CLAY DIATOM OOZE

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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FELDSPAR (02%);  CLAY MINERAL (50%);  GLAUCONITE (02%);
DIATOM (50%);  RADIOLARIA (02%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):   300       Sand: 050%   Sect:  4
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 010%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     4.80    Clay: 040%

Age : UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Name: GLAUCONITIZED AND DETRITAL CLAYEY SAND RICH RAD DIATOM OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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QUARTZ (20%);  FELDSPAR (02%);  HEAVY MINERAL (01%);
ROCK FRAGMENT (07%);  GLAUCONITE (15%);  FORAMINIFERA (01%);
DIATOM (29%);  RADIOLARIA (20%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):  1470       Sand: 025%   Sect:  4
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 015%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     5.97    Clay: 060%

Name: DIATOMACEOUS DETRITAL SILTY CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (12%);  FELDSPAR (03%);  HEAVY MINERAL (02%);
CLAY MINERAL (33%);  GLAUCONITE (05%);  FORAMINIFERA (02%);
DIATOM (43%);  RADIOLARIA (02%);  SPICULE (02%);



Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt:
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     6.10    Clay:


Components:  (, % converted from relative abundance)
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MICRONODULE (50%);  CLAY MINERAL (10%);  PUMICE (01%);
QUARTZ (02%);



Leg : 36    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 007%   Sect: CC
Hole: 327   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 033%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     6.10    Clay: 060%

Name: SAND, SILT

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (05%);  FELDSPAR (02%);  HEAVY MINERAL (02%);
GLASS (02%);  PALAGONITE (02%);  GLAUCONITE (45%);
DIATOM (30%);  RADIOLARIA (10%);  SPICULE (10%);

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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