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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):  1020       Sand: 010%   Sect:  2
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.52    Clay: 060%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: PELAGIC CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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QUARTZ (06%);  FELDSPAR (06%);  GLASS (23%);
MICRONODULE (23%);  MONTMORILLONITE (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):  1140       Sand: 035%   Sect:  2
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     2.64    Clay: 060%

Age : PLEISTOCENE
Name: VOLCANO/PELAGIC CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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FELDSPAR (06%);  PYROXENE (06%);  GLASS (55%);
PALAGONITE (06%);  MICRONODULE (23%);  MONTMORILLONITE (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 010%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     9.10    Clay: 060%

Name: PELAGIC BROWN CLAY

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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FELDSPAR (06%);  GLASS (23%);  MICRONODULE (23%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):     0.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   1   Sample Depth (m) :     9.10    Clay: 060%

Name: PELAGIC CLAY

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (06%);  GLASS (06%);  PALAGONITE (06%);
MICRONODULE (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):   900       Sand: 035%   Sect:  4
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):    61.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    66.40    Clay: 060%

Age : UPPER MIOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
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GLASS (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 035%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):    61.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   2   Sample Depth (m) :    70.10    Clay: 060%

Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLASS (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand:        Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   137.00    Silt:
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :   143.10    Clay:

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: BASALTIC HORNBLENDE PUMICE

Components:  (Minor lithology)
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QUARTZ (11%);  FELDSPAR (11%);  PYROXENE (11%);
GLASS (11%);  PALAGONITE (14%);  HORNBLENDE (03%);
RADIOLARIA (27%);  SPICULE (11%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 035%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   137.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   3   Sample Depth (m) :   143.10    Clay: 060%

Age : MIDDLE MIOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (06%);  GLASS (06%);  MICRONODULE (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 010%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   230.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   4   Sample Depth (m) :   233.10    Clay: 060%

Age : LOWER MIOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLASS (06%);  PYRITE (06%);  MICRONODULE (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 010%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   352.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   5   Sample Depth (m) :   355.10    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
GLASS (06%);  MAGNETITE (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 035%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   458.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   6   Sample Depth (m) :   467.10    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
FELDSPAR (06%);  GLASS (06%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 035%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   534.00    Silt: 060%
Core:   7   Sample Depth (m) :   543.10    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: NANNOFOSSIL CHALK OOZE

Components:  (Dominant lithology)
======================================================================
MICA (04%);  ZEOLITE (04%);  IRON (16%);
FORAMINIFERA (38%);  NANNOFOSSIL (38%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):     0       Sand: 010%   Sect: CC
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   553.00    Silt: 035%
Core:   9   Sample Depth (m) :   559.10    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: NANNOPLANKTON MARL/MATRIX

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
QUARTZ (06%);  FELDSPAR (06%);  MICA (06%);
GLASS (06%);  PALAGONITE (06%);  ZEOLITE (23%);
MICRONODULE (06%);  IRON (55%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):   700       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   561.00    Silt: 060%
Core:  10   Sample Depth (m) :   561.70    Clay: 060%

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: RECRYSTALLIZED NANNOFOSSIL CHALK

Components:  (Minor lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
MICA (23%);  GLASS (23%);  NANNOFOSSIL (23%);



Leg :  7    Top Int Depth(mm):  1350       Sand:        Sect:  1
Hole:  63   Top Core Depth(m):   561.00    Silt:
Core:  10   Sample Depth (m) :   562.35    Clay:

Age : OLIGOCENE
Name: CALCITE VEIN

Components:  (Dominant lithology, % converted from relative abundance)
======================================================================
FORAMINIFERA (06%);  NANNOFOSSIL (06%);



    

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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