Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  850/1000  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:  59A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   52.65    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   52.80    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.15
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        88        12       1.15/ 93              1
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DIATOM OOZE                                                 
Screen Lith    : DIATOM OOZE                                                 
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1000/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:  59A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   52.80    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   53.30    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         3        97       1.32/ 83             53
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITIC CLAY                                               
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY                 
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:  59A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   53.30    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   54.80    Age: 
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.50
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0       100       1.34/ 81            157
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITE CLAY                                                
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY                 
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/1300  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:  59A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   54.80    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   56.10    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    1.30
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1         0        99       1.30/ 84            136
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : ZEOLITE BROWN CLAY                                          
Screen Lith    : ZEOLITE RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH PELAGIC CLAY                 
 
 
 
Leg :  6    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) : 1300/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole:  59A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   56.10    Age: PLEISTOCENE
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   56.30    Age: 
Sect:  3    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.20
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0        89        11       1.19/ 90             20
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : DIATOMITE                                                   
Screen Lith    : DIATOM DIATOMITE

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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