Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 100  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.00    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.10    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.10
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        92           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Data incomplete; interpretation allowed manual encoding.
Shipboard Lith : SILTY CLAY                                                  
Screen Lith    : MUD                                                         
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  110/ 530  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.11    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    0.53    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.42
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0        92           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : FINE SAND                                                   
Screen Lith    : SAND                                                        
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  540/1500  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    0.54    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.50    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.96
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      1         4        95           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : SILTY CLAY                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLAY MINERAL RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH MUD             
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  100/ 320  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.60    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    1.82    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.22
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      4         2        94           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : CLAY                                                        
Screen Lith    : QUARTZ RICH TERRIGENOUS DETRITUS RICH SILT                  
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  330/ 970  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    1.83    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.47    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.64
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : SILT                                                        
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :  970/ 980  Age: PLEISTOCENE
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    2.47    Age: UPPER PLEISTOCENE
Core:   1   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    2.48    Age: MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
Sect:  2    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.01
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : MUDDY SAND                                                  
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 250  Age: 
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :    5.10    Age: 
Core:   2   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):    5.35    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.25
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
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Shipboard Lith : COARSE SAND                                                 
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 600  Age: 
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   14.50    Age: 
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   15.10    Age: 
Sect:  1    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.60
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      0         0         0           /                  
 
Processing Hist: 
Shipboard Lith : SLIGHTLY MUDDY SAND                                         
Screen Lith    : CLASTIC SEDIMENT.                                           
 
 
 
Leg : 66    Top/Bottom Interval(mm) :   00/ 220  Age: 
Hole: 486A  Depth Top of Layer(m)   :   15.20    Age: 
Core:   3   Depth Bottom of Layer(m):   15.42    Age: 
Sect: CC    Thickness of Layer(m)   :    0.22
 
       Average Percent          G.R.A.P.E. Avg   # G.R.A.P.E.
Calcareous Siliceous Detrital  Density/Porosity   meas Avg'd
========== ========= ========  ================  ============
      5         2        93           /                  
 
Processing Hist: Classification was successful.
Shipboard Lith : MUDDY FINE SAND                                             
Screen Lith    : QUARTZ RICH CLAY MINERAL RICH SANDY MUD

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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