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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  780/ 800  Describer: Natland, J.
Hole: 461   Top of Core Depth(m)   :     0.00   Rock Type: METAMORPHIC
Core:   1   Sample Midpoint(m)     :     0.79   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = METAGABBRO;
       Texture: POIKILOBLASTIC;
       Where sampled: COBBLE IN SEDIMENTS*

Phenocrysts- AMPHIBOLE                 (   35%)
             PLEOCHROIC,PALE BROWN-GREEN + YELLOW GREEN-GREEN*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   48%)
             POIKILOBLASTICALLY ENCLOSED BY AMPHIBOLE;

             QUARTZ                    (   15%)

             MAGNETITE                 (    2%)

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   TR%)
             Morphology: RELICT
             RELICT IN AMPHIBOLES*

Alteration - ZEOLITE                   (   TR%)
             Location: IN CRACKS
             RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM*

Vesicles   -
             Percent:     0




Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  620/ 640  Describer: Sharaskin, A.
Hole: 461   Top of Core Depth(m)   :    11.00   Rock Type: METAMORPHIC
Core:   3   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    11.63   Sect/Pc #:  1/

ROCK = METABASALT;
       Texture: NEMATOGRANOBLASTIC;
       Where sampled: COBBLE IN SEDIMENT*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   60%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.3  Morphology: INTERSERTAL
             APPROX COMP ANDESINE(?) AND LABRADOR IN LATHS,
             RECRYSTALLIZED;

             AMPHIBOLE                 (   20%)
             Size(mm):     TO 1.5

             QUARTZ                    (   15%)
             Size(mm):    0.1-0.5

             MAGNETITE                 (    5%)
             Size(mm):   0.02-0.1

             SPHENE

             COMBINATION
             INCLUDES AMPH + QUARTZ + SPHENE + PLAG FROM ABOVE
             ARE METAMORPHIC ASSEMBLAGE BUT NO FOLIATION*

Vesicles   -
             Percent:    TR
             VERY RARE OR NONE PRESENT*




Leg : 60    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  160/ 180  Describer: Sharaskin, A.
Hole: 461   Top of Core Depth(m)   :    11.00   Rock Type: METAMORPHIC
Core:   3   Sample Midpoint(m)     :    12.55   Sect/Pc #: CC/

ROCK = META-QUARTZ DIABASE;
       Texture: PSEUDOSUBOPHITIC*

Groundmass - PLAGIOCLASE               (   50%)

             QUARTZ                    (   20%)

             AMPHIBOLE                 (   15%)

             CHLORITE                  (   10%)

             MAGNETITE                 (   10%)

             SPHENE                    (    1%)

             CLINOPYROXENE             (   TR%)
             Morphology: RELICTS

             COMBINATION               (  100%)
             ALL OF THE ABOVE MINERALS APPARENTLY REPRESENT A
             METAMORPHIC ASSEMBLAGE BUT FOLIATION OR
             SCHISTOSIT IS ABSENT AND ALL ELEMENTS OF ORIGINAL

             DIABASE
             STRUCTURE ARE PRESERVED INCLUDING RELICTS OF
             QUARTZ-PLAG MICROPEGMATITIC INTERGROWTHS*

Vesicles   -
             Percent:    TR
             Filling: QUARTZ
             NO VESICLES PRESENT,OR ALL ARE FILLED WITH QUARTZ
             IF THEY WERE THERE ONCE*




    

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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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