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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 67    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 265  Analyst: Shiki, T.
Hole: 499B  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   277.48
Core:   9   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   277.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   277.32

LITHOLOGY: SEDIMENT;


Leg : 67    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  265/ 345  Analyst: Shiki, T.
Hole: 499B  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   277.56
Core:   9   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   277.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   277.48

LITHOLOGY: BASALTIC ROCK(DOLERITE);

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (26.5-34.5);

  Comments   : CUT BY DRILL, 5.5CM THICK;


Leg : 67    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 600  Analyst: Azema, J.
Hole: 499B  Sample Midpoint (m)    :   286.10
Core:  10   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   285.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   285.50

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-OL MICROPHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES 1 (0-5), 2 (8-13), 3 (16-20), 4 (22-30),
               5 (32-36), 6 (38-46), 7 (49-53);

  Texture    : MICROPHYRIC, GNDMSS IS XTLLNE & MICROLITIC;

  Structure  : RARE CALCITE VEINS IN PCES 3 & 7;

  Alteration : SLIGHT
               PCE 1;
               FRESH
               PCES 2-7, MICROPHENOS IN PCE 4 ALTERED IN ORANGE
               BROWN MATERIAL;

  Comments   : PCE 1 IS PALE YELLOW IN COLOR, PREDOMINANTLY DARK
               GREY;

  Phenocrysts: PYROXENE
               Size(mm):         <2
               PCES 4 & 6;

               OLIVINE
               Size(mm):         <2
               MICROPHENOCRYSTS, FOUND IN PCE 4;

               PLAGIOCLASE
               Size(mm):       TO 2
               MICROPHENOS FOUND IN PCES 2 & 4, LATHS;

  Replacement: CALCITE


    

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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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