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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  7    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 590  Analyst:
Hole:  61   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    94.59
Core:   2   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    94.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    94.00

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : APHYRIC;

  Structure  : VEINS;

  Alteration : CHLORITE AND MONTMORILLONITE  ALTERATION COMMON;

  Comments   : OLIVE-GRAY (5Y 6/2);

  Vesicles   :
               Location:            Filling: ZEOLITE
               WHITE XTLS, ABUNDANT IN UPPER FEW CENTIMETERS;

  Groundmass : OTHER
               Size(mm):   0.5 TO 1
               XTLS IN IGNEOUS ROCK;

  Replacement: ZEOLITE
               WHITE XTLS IN VUGS AND VEINS;

               CHLORITE

               MONTMORILLONITE
               BOTH COMMON IN UPPER PART OF CORE;


Leg :  7    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst:
Hole:  61   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    97.00
Core:   2   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    94.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):    95.50

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : APHYRIC;

  Structure  : VEINS AT STEEP ANGLES;

  Alteration : CHLORITE AND MONTMORILLONITE  ALTERATION COMMON;

  Comments   : GREENISH-GRAY (5G 5/1);

  Vesicles   : VESSICULAR;

  Groundmass : OTHER
               Size(mm):     1 TO 2
               XTLS IN IGNEOUS ROCK;

  Replacement: ZEOLITE
               POSSIBLE WHITE XTLS SEEN IN VEINS;

               CHLORITE

               MONTMORILLONITE
               BOTH COMMON IN UPPER PART OF CORE;


Leg :  7    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/   0  Analyst:
Hole:  61   Sample Midpoint (m)    :    97.10
Core:   2   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    94.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    97.10

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : SAME AS CORES 2-1 AND -2;


    

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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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