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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    31.00/   31.50
Hole: 389   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    30.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1000/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 MANGANIFEROUS FORAM SAND;C 10YR7/3;S 100-105 CM MUDDY FORAM SAND MEDIUM 
GRAINED,SECTION IS GRADED COARSE SAND UPWARDS TO MUDDY MEDIUM SAND;O THIS 
IS PROBABLY AN ARTIFACT OF HANDLING HALF FULL CORE BARREL,SALT AND PEPPER 
APPEARANCE FROM STAINED FORAMS PERCENT DARK GRAINS INCREASED DOWNWARD;P 
100-105CM PELAGICFORAMS 70 % MICRO GASTROPODS 10 % DARK FRAGMENTS (MN AND 
STAINED SKELETAL FRAGMENTS) 5% PTEROPODS ECHINOID SPINES COCCOLITHS DISC,
105-150 CM PELAGIC FORAMS;P 90% (10% STAINED BLACK 75% STAINED TO SOME 
DEGREESLIGHT STAINING ON SOME PTEROPODS BORING OR POSSIBLY ETCHING;M 
105-150 CM MN FRAGMENTS 5-10%;O NOT VISIBLY DEFORMED BECAUSE SAMPLE IS 
UNLAYERED LOOSE SAND CORE PROBABLY DID NOT SAMPLE STRATIGRAPHICALLY 
LOOSEMATERIAL WAS PERHAPS DREDGED UP AS BUT SLID ALONG BOTTOM;H FIRM;Z 
00000000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    31.50/   33.00
Hole: 389   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    30.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 MANGANIFEROUS FORAM SAND;C 2.5Y4/4;U 125-150 CM PEBBLES PROBABLY 
SEGREGATED AT SIDE OF CORE TUBE COARSER PARTICLES ARE SMALL MN NODULES (TO 
1 CM) PHOSPHORITE CLASTS;O 0-125 CM COARSE-MEDIUM GRAINED;M MANGANESE,
PHOSPHORITE;P SINGLE BENTHONIC FORAM;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    33.00/   33.40
Hole: 389   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    30.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/ 400
Sect:  3
 
Visual Text Description:
 GRAVELY MANGANIFEROUS FORAM SAND;U MANGANESE NODULES;M MANGANESE;P SAND > 
90% PELAGIC FORAMS WITH SHELL FRAGMENTS PTEROPODS,GRAVEL-BLACK SHELLS 
(APTYCHII?) GASTROPODS;U PHOSPHORITE CLASTS;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    33.40/   33.52
Hole: 389   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    30.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  400/ 520
Sect:  3
 
Visual Text Description:
 SANDY SHELL FRAGMENT,MANGANIFEROUS NODULE GRAVEL SAND FORAMS;U MANGANESE 
NODULES;M MANGANESE,PHOSPRITE;P APTYCHII?,GASTROPODS;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    33.52/   34.50
Hole: 389   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    30.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  520/1500
Sect:  3
 
Visual Text Description:
 MANGANESE NODULE GRAVEL;U MANGANESE NODULES TO 5 CM,PHOSPHORITE CLASTS TO 
4 CM ESPECIALLY AT 70-100 CM ENCRUSTED BY SPIRORBIDS;P PELAGIC FORAMS 
PLASTEREDON SHELL FRAGMENTS (?APTYCHILL),SHARK TEETH;H FIRM;Z 00000000 
 
 
    

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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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