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Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    48.73/   48.82
Hole: 392   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    47.50
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1230/1320
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 MANGANESE NODULES;C N2-DARK GRAYISH BLACK;S ROUGHLUMPS WITH A SPONGY TO 
VAGUELY LAMINATED STRUCTURE;D BRECCIATED;P LARGEST PIECE ENCRUSTED BY 
LIVING ANEMONE AND SERPULIDS (PARTIALLY COATED) THEREFORE CAMEFROM PRESENT 
SEDIMENT SURFACE;O WITH OTHER ROCK FRAGMENTS, VERY DULL AND MATT BLACK 
(N2) SURFACE;H HARD;Z 12130000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    48.82/   49.00
Hole: 392   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    47.50
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1320/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 LIMESTONE;C 10YR8/2-WHITE, 10Y7/3-PALE YELLOW, -DARK BROWN, 10YR8/3-VERY 
PALE BROWN;S LIMESTONE FRAGMENTS IN TWO CATAGORIES AT 132-139 CM TYPE ONE 
IS ROUNDED BORED 10YR8/2 MUDDY OR SILTY LIMESTONE TYPE 2 ISDENSE MICRITIC 
? LIMESTONE WITH CEMENT CLEAR TO MILKY SPAR POROSITY HIGH FROM INCOMPLETE 
CEMENT BETWEEN RIMS OF MILKY CALCITE IN SHELTER PORES AT 146-150 CM;P 
GLOBIGERINA-TYPE FORAMS IN TYPE 1, SEVERAL PIECES OF SPONGE IN TUBE 
PROBABLY ALIVE WHEN SAMPLED;O TYPE 1 BORING ARE SPOTTED WITH MN AND 
PLANKTONIC FORAMS, INTERPRETATION OF TYPE 1 IS ROCKS AT SURFACE, TYPE 2 
HAS LIGHT BROWN COATING IN PORES AND THE LITHOCLASTS ARE VERY ANGULAR 
PLATES TO 15 MM ACROSS OF ANGULAR FRAGMENTS WITH PARTIALLY CEMENTED 
LITHOCLASTIC TEXTURE MICRITIC ? LIMESTONE, 10Y7/3 AT 139-141CM SPONGY WITH 
IRREGULAR BIRDSEYE OR SHELTER PORES (1-2 MM) BETWEEN DENSE PLATES OR SMALL 
LUMPS OF MICRITE (< 1 MM TO 1 CM DIAMETER);S MULTIPLE LAMINATED CRUSTS AT 
141-143 CM DENSE ANDPEARLY LUSTROUS TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE CARBONATE 
(LUSTROUS ONES APPEAR TO BE ORIENTED CRYSTALS) INTERSPERSED WITH AND 
INCORPORATING DARK BROWN OOIDS AND BELEMNITES IN A MATRIX OF 10YR8/3 
(SPLOTCHY) CARBONATE MUD, DENSE INTRACLASTIC 10YR8/3 LIMESTONE AT 143-146 
CM, POROUS INTRACLASTIC LIMESTONE AT 146-150 CM WITH MICRITE LUMPS 
POSSIBLY SOME SKELETAL;D BRECCIATED;U TYPE 1 HAS MN ROSETTES THROUGOUT THE 
INTERIOR OFROCK;U OOIDS (POSSIBLY CHAMOSITE) OF 141-143 CM ARE 
CONCENTRICALLY LAMINATED OBLATE SPHEROIDS (UP TO 2 MM) WITH RUSTY 
IRREGULAR LUMPS OR OTHER OOIDS AS NUCLEI, CLASTS AT 143-146 CM ARE ROUND 
TO ANGULAR MICRITE TO1 CM CEMENT MILKY FINE SPAR OVERLAIN BY COARSELY 
CRYSTALLINE CLEAR SPAR;M PARTIALLY MN COATED IN TYPE 1,CLASTS IN FORM OF 
SHELTER VOIDS UNCERTAIN WHETHER CLASTS ARE STIFF MUD OR HARD MICRITE 
(RECRYSTALLIZED LIMESTONE, INTERPRETATION OF TYPE 2 PROBABLY IN SITULUMPS 
TO 2 CM DIAMETER;O FOUR ROCKS AT 139-150 CM PERHAPS IN SEQUENCE BUT 
CERTAINLY NOT ADJACENT ORIGINALLY, INTERPRETATION OF139-141 CM SEDIMENTARY 
AGGREGATE OF HARD PELLETOIDSAND GRAPESTONE LUMPS OR SOFT CLASTS OF MUD 
WITH CRUMBLY TEXTURE FROM WETTING AND DRYING (INTERTIDAL), INTERPRETATION 
OF 141-143 CM CRUSTS ARE WEATHERING SUBAERIAL OR POSSIBLY SUBMARINE;H SOFT 
TYPE 1, TYPE 2 HARD PARTIALLY CEMENTED, REST HARD;Z 12130000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    57.00/   58.50
Hole: 392   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    57.00
Core:   2   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 LIMESTONE;D DRILL CUTTING ENTIRELY;O CONTAINS PARTICLES < 2 MM OF MOST OF 
MATERIAL DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 CORE 1 IE MN LUMPS MICRITIC LIMESTONE DARK 
OOIDS AND SHELLS, NO OOZE?;H STIFF;Z 12130000 
 
 
Leg : 44    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :    58.50/   60.00
Hole: 392   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :    57.00
Core:   2   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 LIMESTONE;C 10YR8/4, 5Y8/3, 10YR7/3;P SKELETAL DEBRIS, PELECYPODS, 
GASTROPODS, OSTRACODS REPLACED BYCLEAR SPAR PROBABLY MOLDS;S LAMINAE, 
VERTICAL PORES126-131 CM 134-135 CM 143-145 CM 147-150 CM FORMEDBY GAS 
ESCAPE OR POSSIBLY MUD CRACKING (FILLED), LIMESTONE, MUDSTONE AND 
WACKESTONE WITH MUD INTERCLASTSAND DRAPES;O SAND OF DRILL CUTTINGS ANGULAR,
 PLATEYLIMESTONE CUTTINGS DOMINANT,PROMINANT "BIRDSEYE" ORLATERALLY 
EXTENDED PORES (FILLED).  ORIGIN OF THE "BIRDSEYE" FABRIC IS MAJOR 
QUESTION.  LATERALLY CONTINUOUS NATURE OF MUD SUGGESTS WETTING AND DRYING, 
GASFUMAROLES AND POSSIBLY ALGAL STROMATOLITES WERE INVOLVED (I.E. NOT 
CLASTIC) SANDY LAYERS WOULD BE COMPATIBLE AS STORM LAYERS. BIRDSEYES 
PREDOMINATELY SHELTER VOIDS MADE POSSIBLE BY COHESIVENESS OF THE MUDDY 
LAYERS.  ALGAE MAY WELL BE INVOLVED IN THE BIRDSEYE FORMATION IN 
LIMEMUDSTONE AND WACKESTONE;H STIFF;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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