Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg 66, hole 489A
Physiographic feature:	trench
Total penetration (m):	327
# sediment cores:	34
Oldest sediment core:	31
Oldest sediment age:	Lower Miocene
Oldest sediment description:	green silt and siltstone
Type of crust:	oceanic
Depth to basement (m):	303
# Rock cores:	3
Rock description:	schistquartz schist
Other holes at this site:	489
Adjacent sites :	486 487 488 490 491 492 493
Data types available:

afd paleomagnetics	original	delimited	browse
age profile	original	delimited
carbon/carbonate	original	delimited
core depth recovery	original	delimited
density-porosity	original	delimited
grain size	original	delimited
gamma ray attenuation porosity evaluator	original	delimited
igneous/metamorphic rock descriptions	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock paleomagnetics	original	delimited	browse
igneous/metamorphic rock thin section descriptions	original		browse
nannofossils	original	delimited	browse
radiolaria	original	delimited	browse
SCREEN descriptions	original	delimited	browse
site summary information	original	delimited
smearslide descriptions	original	delimited	browse
visual descriptions	original	delimited	browse
x-ray mineralogy, bulk (WHOI)	original	delimited
x-ray mineralogy, clay fraction (WHOI)	original	delimited

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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