Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 600  Analyst: Schrader, E.L.
Hole: 506D  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    31.50
Core:   9   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    30.90
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):    30.90

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Comments   : FORAM NANNO OOZE SOUP WITH SCATTERED BASALT
               FRAGMENTS (UP TO 1CM LARGEST DIMENSION), BASALT
               CONCENTRATED AROUND BASE OF SECTION, LARGEST PCES
               ALSO FOUND AT BASE;


Leg : 70    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 200  Analyst: Laverne, C.
Hole: 506D  Sample Midpoint (m)    :    31.70
Core:   9   Top of Core Depth (m)  :    30.90
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):    31.60

LITHOLOGY: BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCES NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED;

  Texture    : SMALL (23MM) FRAGMENTS OF GLASS (ONE OF THEM IS
               A CHILLED MARGIN FRAGMENT (3CM IN DIAMETER, 0.5MM
               THICKNESS);

  Comments   : NUMEROUS VOLCANIC FRAGMENTS IN FORAM NANNO OOZE,
               5CM FRAGMENTS OF BASALT;

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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