Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand: 042%   Sect:  1
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 027%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    13.85    Clay: 031%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: MUDDY RADIOLARIAN VOLCANIC SAND

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (20%);  GLASS (25%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (20%);
NANNOFOSSIL (02%);  RADIOLARIA (30%);  SPICULE (03%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   800       Sand: 023%   Sect:  2
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 019%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    14.80    Clay: 058%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RADIOLARIAN CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (48%);  ZEOLITE (04%);  GLASS (08%);
UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (09%);  NANNOFOSSIL (04%);  DIATOM (02%);
RADIOLARIA (20%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   460       Sand: 025%   Sect:  3
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 040%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    15.96    Clay: 035%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RADIOLARIA SILT WITH VOLCANIC ASH

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (29%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (05%);
RADIOLARIA (50%);  SPICULE (06%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1200       Sand: 030%   Sect:  3
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 040%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    16.70    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RADIOLARIAN SANDY SILT WITH VOLCANIC ASH

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (35%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (07%);
RADIOLARIA (43%);  SPICULE (05%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   200       Sand: 020%   Sect:  4
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 050%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    17.20    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RADIALARIAN SILT WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (30%);  RADIOLARIA (40%);
SPICULE (07%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1400       Sand: 020%   Sect:  4
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 045%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    18.40    Clay: 025%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RADIAL SILT WITH VOLCANIC GLASS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (30%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (18%);
DIATOM (04%);  RADIOLARIA (29%);  SPICULE (04%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   200       Sand: 020%   Sect:  5
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 040%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    18.70    Clay: 040%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: VOLCANIC SILT ASH WITH RADS

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
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CLAY MINERAL (15%);  GLASS (35%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (15%);
RADIOLARIA (20%);  SPICULE (10%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):  1300       Sand: 030%   Sect:  5
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 040%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    19.80    Clay: 030%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RAD SILT WITH VOLCANIC ASH

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (20%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (20%);
NANNOFOSSIL (05%);  RADIOLARIA (33%);  SPICULE (12%);



Leg :  6    Top Int Depth(mm):   100       Sand: 020%   Sect:  6
Hole:  53B  Top Core Depth(m):    12.50    Silt: 045%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :    20.10    Clay: 035%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: RAD SILT WITH VOLCANIC ASH

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
CLAY MINERAL (10%);  GLASS (36%);  UNIDENTIFIED MATERIAL (19%);
DIATOM (05%);  RADIOLARIA (21%);  SPICULE (04%);

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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