Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     0.00/    1.50
Hole:  46   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  1
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY ZEOLITIC CLAY;C 10YR4/4-BROWN, 5YR6/3-LIGHTREDDISH BROWN;S SEVERAL 
ANGULAR FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT REDDISH BROWN LITHIFIED ASH AND RAD CHERT AT 
TOP OF SECTION;D INTENSE DEFORMATION, SLOPPY;M ZEOLITE;O BASICALLY BROWN 
CLAY, CHERT CONSISTS OF 40% RADS EITHER AS HOLLOW MOLDS OR FILLINGS OF 
SECONDARY QUARTZ AND 60% VERY FINE GRAINED MATRIX OF MICROCRYSTALLINE QTZ 
AND CLAY MINS AND ZEOLITES POSSIBLY;H SOFT;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     1.50/    3.00
Hole:  46   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  2
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY ZEOLITIC CLAY;C 10YR4/4-BROWN, 5YR6/3-LIGHTREDDISH BROWN, 
5Y8/2-WHITE;S ANGULAR CHIPS OF CHERTAND LITHIFIED ASH ARE PRESENT BUT ARE 
PROBABLY CONTAMINANTS;D INTENSE DEFORMATION, VERY SLOPPY;O MAINLYBROWN 
CLAY MIXED WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF LIGHT REDDISH BROWN VOLCANIC ASH AND 
WHITISH ASH;H SOFT VOLCANICASH;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     3.00/    4.50
Hole:  46   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  3
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY ZEOLITIC MUD;C 10YR4/4-BROWN, 10YR3/2-VERY DARK BROWN, -REDDISH 
BROWN, -WHITISH;S A FEW REDDISHBROWN AND WHITISH UNLITHIFIED ASH LAYERS 
(?) MIXED IN, ANGULAR CHIPS OF CHERT AND TUFF ARE PROBABLY CONTAMINANTS;D 
INTENSE DEFORMATION, VERY SLOPPY;M ZEOLITE;O MAINLY BROWN MUD WITH SOME 
VERY DARK BROWN ZEOLITIC MUD;H SOFT;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     4.50/    6.00
Hole:  46   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  4
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY ZEOLITIC CLAY;C 10YR4/4-BROWN, -REDDISH BROWN, -WHITISH;S ANGULAR 
FRAGMENTS OF CHERT AND TUFF ARE PROBABLY CONTAMINANTS;D INTENSE 
DEFORMATION, VERYSLOPPY;O MAINLY BROWN CLAY WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF REDDISH 
BROWN AND WHITISH ASH;H SOFT ASH;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     6.00/    7.50
Hole:  46   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  5
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY ZEOLITIC CLAY;C 10YR4/4-BROWN, -REDDISH BROWN, -WHITISH;S ANGULAR 
CHIPS OF CHERT AND TUFF ARE PROBABLY CONTAMINANTS;D INTENSE DEFORMATION, 
VERY SLOPPY;M ZEOLITE;O MAINLY BROWN CLAY WITH SMALL AMOUNTSOF REDDISH 
BROWN AND WHITISH VOLCANIC ASH;H SOFT ASH;Z 00000000;Z 00000000 
 
 
Leg :  6    Depth Top/Bottom of Layer(m) :     7.50/    9.00
Hole:  46   Depth to Top of Core(m)      :     0.00
Core:   1   Depth Top/Bottom Interval(mm):   00/1500
Sect:  6
 
Visual Text Description:
 SILTY ZEOLITIC CLAY;O SAME AS ABOVE;H SOFT;Z 00000000;Z 00000000

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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