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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg 55, hole 430

Physiographic feature:sediment pond
Total penetration (m):14
# sediment cores:3
Oldest sediment core:2
Oldest sediment age:Upper Eocene
Oldest sediment description: iron manganese sandy gravel and pebbly mudstone
Type of crust:oceanic
Other holes at this site:430A  430B

Data types available:
age profile original delimited  
core depth recovery original delimited  
diatoms original delimited browse
grain size original delimited  
gamma ray attenuation
porosity evaluator 		original delimited  
nannofossils original delimited browse
SCREEN descriptions original delimited browse
site summary information original delimited  
smearslide descriptions original delimited browse
sonic velocity original delimited  
visual descriptions original delimited browse
water chemistry
(interstitial) 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
bulk (WHOI) 		original delimited  
x-ray mineralogy,
clay fraction (WHOI) 		original delimited  

Related data in the Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (doi:10.7289/V5H41PB8)

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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